Hot damn it's almost like empirical (qualitative) research can give us answers against hot-take headlines. @deaneckles @zeynephttps://twitter.com/achrisafis/status/1070976038581256192 …
Yes, Twitter certainly did, and I can try to look up with public statements from Facebook but lots of Facebook people certainly did. And it did play a role! The problem is that neither platform recognized the complexity of their role (at least not at the time).
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This is Zuck's letter to investors right ahead of the multi-billion IPO. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-letter/zuckerbergs-letter-to-investors-idUSTRE8102MT20120201 …pic.twitter.com/UwASU8IKhH
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(That was only one year after the Arab Spring! But already a good chunk of the problems that would later plague the platform were evident. I wrote my first public NYT piece asking Facebook to create a transparent database of political ads about a month after the 2012 IPO).
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