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Social media apps and Internet platforms are going to the dogs
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For apps, exploitation is the goal, and the profit-maximising playbook will recommend bargains followed by rip-offs
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Tim Harford
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Elon Musk has given us someone to blame for the fact that Twitter seems so terrible nowadays, but it’s far from being the only Internet platform that seems terrible.
Facebook is a mess. Young people tell me that Instagram has ruined itself in the quest to be like TikTok and that TikTok is a shadow of its former self. I wouldn’t know about any of that.
