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Vanity Fair / Ben Smith / Apr 24, 2023
“[Jonah] Peretti says he doesn’t regret turning down the Disney deal, and I don’t either, though I’m sure our investors do. At the time, the upward trajectory seemed clear: Social media would swallow the old internet, and we’d rise with it. And for a couple more years, we seemed to be rising…But our big prediction was wrong. Social media turned dark and began to contract.”
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