Episode 22: The Internet - Part 2: Web 2.0

Aaron brings Robert and Rachel through the horrors of venture capital, Meta's quarterly reports, and the enshittification of the web.

Music by Daniel Griggs.

READ THIS STUFF:

• A funny Tweet about how shitty the Internet is.
• How Venture Capital Works, Harvard Business Review
• How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions, Harvard Business Review
• Competition is for Losers, Peter Thiel in the Wall Street Journal
• Facebook's culpability in genocide
  • NBC News
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • The Guardian
• Meta's financial report
• The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Internet Next Week, Legal Eagle
• How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (or Family, Customers, or Communities), Cory Doctorow and the EFF
• TikTok's enshittification, Cory Doctorow
• Content Moderation is Infosec, Cory Doctorow
• A series of studies on the ease with which tech companies spread misinformation
  • https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorithm-right-wing-amplification-study
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/transphobia-ted-kaczynski-tiktok-algorithm-right-wing-self-radicalization-2021-11?op=1
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504218766547
  • https://www.brookings.edu/research/echo-chambers-rabbit-holes-and-ideological-bias-how-youtube-recommends-content-to-real-users/
  • https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-fake-news-more-engagement-facebook/
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/facebook-twitter-don-t-censor-conservatives-they-hire-promote-them-ncna1245308
  • https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/more-internal-documents-show-how-facebooks-algorithm-prioritized-anger-and-posts-that-triggered-it/ 
• The Internet's video focus is based on a lie, Slate
• Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things, Catherynne M. Valente
• Social Media and Algorithms, PBS Nova