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“Say you read a lot about cooking, and someone similar to you has also read a lot about cooking, but also read a Saturday profile from International about a chef in Italy. We may surface that story in your queue in your newsletter.”
“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley.”
“If you took away advertising from the platforms we have currently, if you took away the need to addict people and harvest their data and keep them refreshing their pages, what would that experience look like?”
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Playboy has left Facebook, the company announces on Instagram." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 28 Mar. 2018. Web. 18 Apr. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2018, Mar. 28). Playboy has left Facebook, the company announces on Instagram. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/playboy-has-left-facebook-the-company-announces-on-instagram/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Playboy has left Facebook, the company announces on Instagram." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 28, 2018. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/playboy-has-left-facebook-the-company-announces-on-instagram/.
Wikipedia
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