Great interview with Craig Newmark here: pcmag.com/news/heres-why…. I remember when I was involved with a Web conference in the early 2000s, we had Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster come to talk, and he related a story that said a lot about Craigslist and its priorities 1/6 He said he was at an investment conference in New York, and a bunch of financial wizards there were practically salivating at the idea of "monetizing" Craigslist's nine billion or so pageviews. "Yeah, we're not going to do that," said Jim. "We have a lot of money already" 2/6

This morning I did an interview on CJR's Galley discussion platform with former Facebook security chief @alexstamos, who now runs the Stanford Internet Observatory. Our jumping off point was FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments about free speech [thread] Alex said he had two issues with Zuckerberg's speech, the first being "his story of Facebook's origin. The idea that it was originally created to give people voice on political topics seems pretty obviously incorrect." The second was that he did what FB critics often do, namely

Despite a lack of evidence to support the theory, alt-right groups and mainstream conservatives alike — including the ones that currently occupy the White House — continue to promote the idea that Facebook, Twitter and Google are somehow biased against them 1/ In the latest move in this long and tiresome parade of grievances, sources tell Politico the White House is circulating drafts of a proposed executive order that would address allegations of anti-conservative bias by social media companies 2/

If you haven't read @YochaiBenkler's new book "Network Propaganda" yet, you really should -- an in-depth and data-heavy look at disinformation and radicalization in the US. It's available for free: play.google.com/books/reader?i… I'm going to tweet a few of the insights from it /1 "We are not arguing that technology does not matter, that the Russians did not interfere with US politics, or that Facebook's algorithm is unimportant. Instead, we suggest each of these depends on the asymmetric partisan ecosystem that has developed over the past four decades" /2