Episode 111 — Lamentation Not Condemnation

Ben and James discuss what it means if Facebook is a monopoly, what is lost if it is, and why there isn’t anything that can be done about it — for now.

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Links

• Ben Thompson: The Facebook Epoch — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/the-facebook-epoch)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/facebook-and-the-cost-of-…)

• Kurt Gessler: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of our posts. And it’s getting worse — Medium (medium.com/@kurtgessler/facebooks-algorithm-is…)

• Ben Thompson: Manifestos and Monopolies — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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