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I don't think social media is necessarily "broken," but the efficiency at which it can organize a large number of people is certainly scary. As with anything powerful, it can be used for good or evil.

I don't see a way to curb this power without imposing deliberate inefficiencies. For instance, if we legally capped the number of users each social network can have, it would curb the "network effect" and promote more competition. Organizing will be more difficult because of the fragmentation.

You might argue that we shouldn't diminish the effectiveness of good causes, but every good cause is a bad cause to someone else, and vice versa. Unless we live under a dictatorship, there is no way to determine who is good and bad absolutely.

When you fight for a cause, you always have opponents. If social media is powerful for you, it's equally powerful for your opponents. By making our shared weapons more powerful, we ultimately gain nothing. The question is which we should pick: The possibility to do massive good or to prevent massive evil?

Why social media is broken & how to fix it Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says social media companies can change for the better. On GZERO World, Haugen tells Ian Bremmer why governments need to rethink how they regulate social media. A good example is the EU, whose new law mandating data transparency could have global ripple effects.

This piece came out of a series of conversations I had with a friend who is having trouble motivating remote workers. It seems to be a widespread problem.

I learned that some people secretly have two full-time jobs where they do the bare minimum because two easy jobs still pay more than one hard job.

I became fascinated by the topic because it's the most philosophical discussion I've had in business. I wrote down all the points I made on these Zoom calls.

What Motivates American Workers in the “Great Resignation” Remote Working Is Here to Stay Among the unexpected consequences of the pandemic is the so-called “Great Resignation.” There are two separate phases of this phenomenon.