“POLITICS AND HARD NEWS are important, I don’t want to imply otherwise.” Uh-oh. When you hear words like that from a tech executive, you know the next thing is a big, fat “but.”
“But my take is, from a platform’s perspective, any incremental engagement or revenue [these topics] might drive is not at all worth the scrutiny, negativity (let’s be honest), or integrity risks that come along with them.”
The executive, in this case, was Adam Mosseri, who leads Instagram and was in charge of Meta’s new app,