It’s Time to Stop Saying “If You’re Not Paying, You’re the Product”


It’s Time to Stop Saying “If You’re Not Paying, You’re the Product”
The pithiness that makes "you are the product" so quotable risks obscuring the complex pact between Facebook and its users, in ways that make social media's problems seem inevitable and insoluble. They're not.

April 27, 2018 at 01:23PM
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