

Head of Programmatic at Webtraffic,Schibsted. Interested in just about anything and everything. Backround in financial markets, startups, tech and marketing.
…grow, so too does their influence, and with it their responsibility to be good stewards of the web. When you have the power to help decide what is and isn’t news for billions of people, that’s not an easy burden to bear. Time will tell how they carry it.
So what? Big deal. How much really changes when you supplement data-driven objectivity with a subjective human touch? A lot, as it turns out. In an instant, Facebook and Twitter were no longer passive forums of conversation, but active reporters of global news. Their communities of billions suddenly became a hypercritical audience of billions. Just like that, they were media companies. And the transition hasn’t been easy.
…ty Check wasn’t the only argument raised against the big platforms. Smaller fires were started too. Why wasn’t there a Lebanese filter for Facebook profile photos? Shouldn’t there have been a Reddit Live thread for Baghdad? Did Twitter Moments lopsidedly favor Paris coverage? While Zuckerberg may have weathered the squall, the indictment opened the floodgates for a much bigger surge — one companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit will have to face in the coming months and years.