{"id":178798,"date":"2018-08-16T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/16\/break-up-facebook-reason-lvlmmxcii\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:45:00","slug":"break-up-facebook-reason-lvlmmxcii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/16\/break-up-facebook-reason-lvlmmxcii\/","title":{"rendered":"Break Up Facebook:  Reason LVLMMXCII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Head of news partnerships&#8221;, the contemptible Campbell Brown (Charter School shenanigans) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/aug\/13\/facebook-news-media-campbell-brown-hospice\">threatened media organizations that choose not to partner with the social media company<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> executive told Australian media companies that if they didn\u2019t cooperate with the social network, their businesses would die. <\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/media\/zuckerberg-doesnt-care-about-traditional-media\/news-story\/d1be791f1b91e3c1fc609cf8979b72e2\">report by The Australian<\/a>, Campbell Brown, Facebook\u2019s head of news partnerships, told a group of more than 20 broadcasters and publishers that she wanted to help media companies develop sustainable business models through the platform. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will help you revitalise journalism \u2026 in a few years the \u00adreverse looks like I\u2019ll be holding your hands with your dying \u00adbusiness like in a hospice,\u201d she said, in comments corroborated by five people who attended the meeting in Sydney on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Australian also reported that Brown said that Facebook\u2019s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, \u201cdoesn\u2019t care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes\u201d, although both Facebook and Brown vehemently deny this comment was made, referring to a transcript they have from the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>Facebook would not release the transcript from the meeting.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, this is a reason to break up the company.&nbsp; This is way too much power for a private actor to have.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I will note something that Yves Smith has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/10\/links-103017.html\">said frequently<\/a>, &#8220;If your business depends on a platform, your business is already dead.&#8221;&nbsp; (The media graveyard is littered with the remnants of companies that have come to depend on a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party platform.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Head of news partnerships&#8221;, the contemptible Campbell Brown (Charter School shenanigans) has threatened media organizations that choose not to partner with the social media company: A senior Facebook executive told Australian media companies that if they didn\u2019t cooperate with the social network, their businesses would die. According to a report by The Australian, Campbell &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,385,479],"class_list":["post-178798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-media","tag-monopoly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}