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> most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."
by karllager 9y ago
> most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth
Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."
- cbcoutinho 9y agoSimilar to how the Daily Show and SNL are not news, but have precariously fallen into a position of authenticity.
- olivermarks 9y agoprecariously or intentionally depending upon your level of paranoia....
- mattkevan 9y agoWhat someone says they are and what they actually are can be very different.
- gowld 9y agoAnd Fox News "we are explicitly not a news company, we are an entertainment company". And same from Alex Jones. Corporations shouldn't get to choose which laws they want to apply to them. Facebook is picking articles to put in NY feed, Facebook is a news company
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoSide note: whenever I see people blasting “corporations,” it flips my hysteria/ignorance bits. “Large companies” is usually a better-informed replacement since (a) most corporations are very small and uninfluential, e.g. mom and pop stores and (b) some influential multinationals are not set up as corporations, e.g. Bloomberg LP.