Show notes
Aaron brings Robert and Rachel through the horrors of venture capital, Meta's quarterly reports, and the enshittification of the web.
Music by Daniel Griggs.
READ THIS STUFF:
- A funny Tweet about how shitty the Internet is.
- How Venture Capital Works, Harvard Business Review
- How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions, Harvard Business Review
- Competition is for Losers, Peter Thiel in the Wall Street Journal
- Facebook's culpability in genocide
- Meta's financial report
- The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Internet Next Week, Legal Eagle
- How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (or Family, Customers, or Communities), Cory Doctorow and the EFF
- TikTok's enshittification, Cory Doctorow
- Content Moderation is Infosec, Cory Doctorow
- A series of studies on the ease with which tech companies spread misinformation
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorithm-right-wing-amplification-study
- https://www.businessinsider.com/transphobia-ted-kaczynski-tiktok-algorithm-right-wing-self-radicalization-2021-11?op=1
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504218766547
- https://www.brookings.edu/research/echo-chambers-rabbit-holes-and-ideological-bias-how-youtube-recommends-content-to-real-users/
- https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-fake-news-more-engagement-facebook/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/facebook-twitter-don-t-censor-conservatives-they-hire-promote-them-ncna1245308
- https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/more-internal-documents-show-how-facebooks-algorithm-prioritized-anger-and-posts-that-triggered-it/
- The Internet's video focus is based on a lie, Slate
- Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things, Catherynne M. Valente
- Social Media and Algorithms, PBS Nova