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Facebook could have chosen a different content strategy
Facebook could have chosen a different content strategy
Smith rejects the idea that Facebook's refusal to sustain professional content was inevitable and describes its reliance on lower-quality user-generated content as a strategic choice that could have been different.
- Speaker
- Ben Smith
- Source timestamp
- 7:17
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