Facebook Is Eating the World

The headline itself is worthy of a thread.
The subject is worth more discussion, though.

Social media hasn’t just swallowed journalism, it has swallowed everything. It has swallowed political campaigns, banking systems, personal histories, the leisure industry, retail, even government and security. The phone in our pocket is our portal to the world. ...

Social media and platform companies took over what publishers couldn’t have built even if they wanted to. Now the news is filtered through algorithms and platforms which are opaque and unpredictable. The news business is embracing this trend, and digital native entrants have built their presence on the premise that they are working within this system, not against it.

Facebook is eating the world