I guess Ian Bogost was writing this 2 years ago. But The Social Dilemma had already been out for almost 2 years by that point. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus had been out for 5 years. It's disturbing that such an uninformed and wrong-headed take can get published in a major outlet like this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

Especially given that the silver bullet solution it offers to the social media tire fire created by the DataFarms, amounts to an argument for a return to information gatekeeping.

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