Twitter Quotes by Franklin Foer

8 Twitter quotes by Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer’s Twitter feed offers pointed commentary on current events. In eight brief statements, he captures the essence of his analytical style without the long‑form exposition.

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If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks…

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The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And…

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Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding…

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“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We have this large community of people,…

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If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.

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Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook,…

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“Facebook is a carefully managed top-down system, not a robust public square. It mimics some of the patterns of conversation, but that’s…

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“Of course, this is not an innocent activity—even though the tech companies disavow any responsibility for the material they publish and promote.…

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“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe that they…

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“There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten…

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Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies…

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“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected, the Web…

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“As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of…

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