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The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism...

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What happenedThe Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us.
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The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and...

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