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Is social media good or bad for us? Yes.

Reid Hoffman

Each time in the past that we have invented such technology, we have found new and unique solutions to manage that emerging communications medium to help us create a stronger, better society. The Challenge of Social Media. Today, that emerging communications medium is social media.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Consider political campaigns that are judging voter reactions or the political pundits that like to comment on such data. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread.