Fast Company in April 2018 has a couple challenging
articles.
Austin Carr and Harry McCracken, in an article ”#Hijacked”
(p 58), explore how Twitter and CEO Jack Dorsey started out with a dream of
free speech, and wound up as fodder for the trolls, want to spread discontent
borne out of group inequality. The article discusses a lot of attempts to monitor
content and Silicon Valley’s looking for imaginary solutions to their problems
with tribalism.
The article suggests that Congress will probably undo all of
the intermediary downstream liability protections in Section 230, which have already
happened with the Backpage matter and the FOSTA law.
The article has a 2018 Social Media Safety Report Card,
where Facebook got the lowest grade, then YouTube and then Reddit.
On p 86, Matthew Shaer covers “The People’s Choice”, a
portrait of master chef Jose Andres, in litigation against Trump over a hotel
deal. It covers his volunteer efforts to
set up cooking operations in Puerto Rico and Houston after the hurricanes, and
in California after the wildfires. Of course, he has the practical skills and business
scale to volunteer like this to help rebuild. He is very good for resilience.
There is also a list of ten World Changing Ideas.
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