Casey Newton

One scenario I've been thinking about is this question of, will the social networks that we once had, which were very large and monolithic, splinter into more partisan versions of themselves? And so eventually you have like the Fox News version of Facebook. And this actually did start to come to pass. You see the rise of a platform like a Truth Social or a Parler, right?

One scenario I've been thinking about is this question of, will the social networks that we once had, which were very large and monolithic, splinter into more partisan versions of themselves? And so eventually you have like the Fox News version of Facebook. And this actually did start to come to pass. You see the rise of a platform like a Truth Social or a Parler, right?

One scenario I've been thinking about is this question of, will the social networks that we once had, which were very large and monolithic, splinter into more partisan versions of themselves? And so eventually you have like the Fox News version of Facebook. And this actually did start to come to pass. You see the rise of a platform like a Truth Social or a Parler, right?

One scenario that I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is like, maybe Facebook becomes the Fox News version of Facebook, right? Maybe there is just this kind of right word lurch in social networking in general, because when Meta runs the numbers and they're obsessive about numbers, they just find this is better for our business.

One scenario that I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is like, maybe Facebook becomes the Fox News version of Facebook, right? Maybe there is just this kind of right word lurch in social networking in general, because when Meta runs the numbers and they're obsessive about numbers, they just find this is better for our business.

One scenario that I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is like, maybe Facebook becomes the Fox News version of Facebook, right? Maybe there is just this kind of right word lurch in social networking in general, because when Meta runs the numbers and they're obsessive about numbers, they just find this is better for our business.

And if there is some tiny remnant of screeching liberals, they can go elsewhere and Meta will be fine. So like that is a possibility. The other scenario, though, is that this is just Mark Zuckerberg making another 20-year mistake in the opposite direction. And in the same way that he gave the left so much of what they asked for after 2016 and found that he got nothing for it,

And if there is some tiny remnant of screeching liberals, they can go elsewhere and Meta will be fine. So like that is a possibility. The other scenario, though, is that this is just Mark Zuckerberg making another 20-year mistake in the opposite direction. And in the same way that he gave the left so much of what they asked for after 2016 and found that he got nothing for it,

And if there is some tiny remnant of screeching liberals, they can go elsewhere and Meta will be fine. So like that is a possibility. The other scenario, though, is that this is just Mark Zuckerberg making another 20-year mistake in the opposite direction. And in the same way that he gave the left so much of what they asked for after 2016 and found that he got nothing for it,

he will now give the right everything that they asked for for so many years, and we'll find that he gets almost nothing for it, right? It's the kind of, if you give a mouse a cookie problem, right? Okay, you have now sold out all trans people to the Republican Party. Did you think they were going to stop there? No, there's going to be another ask, right?

he will now give the right everything that they asked for for so many years, and we'll find that he gets almost nothing for it, right? It's the kind of, if you give a mouse a cookie problem, right? Okay, you have now sold out all trans people to the Republican Party. Did you think they were going to stop there? No, there's going to be another ask, right?

he will now give the right everything that they asked for for so many years, and we'll find that he gets almost nothing for it, right? It's the kind of, if you give a mouse a cookie problem, right? Okay, you have now sold out all trans people to the Republican Party. Did you think they were going to stop there? No, there's going to be another ask, right?

So how do you actually get the result that you want that way? The other reason that I'm Likelier, I think, to believe in this scenario is you look at the problems that Facebook is having right now in the majority of state legislatures around the country.

So how do you actually get the result that you want that way? The other reason that I'm Likelier, I think, to believe in this scenario is you look at the problems that Facebook is having right now in the majority of state legislatures around the country.

So how do you actually get the result that you want that way? The other reason that I'm Likelier, I think, to believe in this scenario is you look at the problems that Facebook is having right now in the majority of state legislatures around the country.

So many states are trying to prevent or dramatically limit the amount of time that teenagers can spend on social media, in some cases trying to block them from using social media altogether because of these child safety issues on the platform.

So many states are trying to prevent or dramatically limit the amount of time that teenagers can spend on social media, in some cases trying to block them from using social media altogether because of these child safety issues on the platform.

So many states are trying to prevent or dramatically limit the amount of time that teenagers can spend on social media, in some cases trying to block them from using social media altogether because of these child safety issues on the platform.

And so this moment when Facebook is under so much scrutiny for all of the harms that befall children on their platforms, for them to say, well, this is the moment that we're kind of just going to stop analyzing any posts to see if they're bad until a user reports them, that could be a world where a lot more kids get hurt and that puts even more pressure on Facebook and it makes even more people mad at them.

And so this moment when Facebook is under so much scrutiny for all of the harms that befall children on their platforms, for them to say, well, this is the moment that we're kind of just going to stop analyzing any posts to see if they're bad until a user reports them, that could be a world where a lot more kids get hurt and that puts even more pressure on Facebook and it makes even more people mad at them.