Key phrase here is - "we are not algorithmically amplifying content" Trump (or Obama for that matter and such characters who suddenly appear out of nowhere due

Key phrase here is - "we are not algorithmically amplifying content" Trump (or Obama for that matter and such characters who suddenly appear out of nowhere due to their pandering to a fan club skills) cannot be propped up at light speed without algorithmic amplification. Read that again Trump and Obama are not possible without the Like Button and the algo amplification it enables. That is the main lesson from the last 15 years. And apps that don't have reward mechanisms that prop up time wasting Pandering section of the population are not going to produce the side effects Youtube, Twitter and Facebook did.