Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web

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Here’s one way to understand the symbiotic relationship between publications and platforms in the digital age. Publications depend on advertising dollars to keep producing content, so they need to hold readers’ attention. Big platforms like Facebook and Twitter already have plenty of attention, but they need vast quantities of content to fill up their newsfeeds. It seems natural, then, that publications have started relying on platforms to drive readership

Source: Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web – Quartz

Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web