The Four

L2 Analysis of LinkedIn Data. This underscores the dominance of the digital giants. It’s not just that their machines are gettin ...

Consider Snapchat. Many analysts saw the wildly successful camera app as a potential horseman. A brainchild of Stanford grad stu ...

cow goes in, the snake takes its shape. After digesting, it returns to its normal shape, but bigger. Much of this enormous beast ...

L2 Analysis of Unmetric Data. L2 Intelligence Report: Social Platforms 2017. L2, Inc. Facebook’s success with Instagram has a lo ...

Despite the considerable effort those users have put into constructing and maintaining their pages, a sexier competitor could st ...

Kafka, Peter. “Google and Facebook are booming. Is the rest of the digital ad business sinking?” Recode. Google and Facebook are ...

As they fight for market dominance, both Facebook and Google can be expected to make bold bets on the future. One especially exp ...

will lay waste to much of the analog and digital media worlds. A decent proxy for what will happen globally to the media busines ...

drilling rigs bring up oil at about $3 per barrel. Even in a depressed market, that same oil sells for about fifty bucks per bar ...

friend venting about politics—the algorithm knows what to feed me because it has pegged me as a progressive. But what about all ...

on that video of Richard Spencer getting punched. Politicians may seem extreme. But they are just responding to the public—and t ...

But for Facebook, it is. Sure, the company tries to hide this greed behind an enlightened attitude. But basically it’s the same ...

hate postings!” This way, similar to the rest of the Four, company executives can wrap themselves in a progressive blanket to ma ...

won’t persuade a lot of people. It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled. We tend to think of social ...

can ascertain if a story is fake or not, and how high on the scale of credibility. A digital space needs rules. Facebook already ...

Chapter 5 Google A religion that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw ...

likely to turn to religion than high school graduates.^4 ,^5 You are also less likely to believe in God if you have a high IQ. O ...

Our first instinct is survival. God was meant to provide safety, but only to those who were righteous and denied all their desir ...

subjects. The effectiveness of prayer, the additional scrutiny determined, remains a matter of opinion.^7 Prayers to Google, how ...

into feet—we confide in Google at a level and frequency that would scare off any friend, no matter how understanding. We place i ...