Why public television isn’t the right model for social networks
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3 min readOct 6, 2019
An article by former Tumblr executive Mark Coatney uses the analogy of Public Broadcasting Television or PBS, to argue for creating a similarly not-for-profit public social network, protected from a corporate takeover, rather than trying to regulate or split social networks currently plagued with disinformation, hypersegmented advertising and toxic content. This would mean social…