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
• Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly — Stratechery
• Kurt Gessler: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of our posts. And it’s getting worse — Medium
• Ben Thompson: Manifestos and Monopolies — Stratechery

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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