Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 am EDT |
Joel R. McConvey
The point is that it may not be the #platforms, but the social media #business model itself, that needs #interrogating. Cans used to be made out of lead, but the lead was the problem, not the cans. Is there a version of social media that is reimagined in similar #fashion – built, so to speak, out of different material? Or are we reaching the point at which, asking of social media, “what does this do?”, we are forced to conclude that the answer is, “nothing good”? #Tobacco and #alcohol, two of the world’s most #notorious regulated products, at least have #millennia of history behind them; Meta’s brief legacy is mainly one of social discord.
One thing seems certain: large social media #platforms and #digital #regulators globally are on a #collision course. How forceful – and damaging – the impact will be to both parties remains an open question.
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