Episode 176 — The Second Estate Era
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54 min
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2 min
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Marketing, Books & Authors
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What It Covers
Ben Thompson and James Allworth examine how social media platforms represent a shift from second estate elite control to third estate mass empowerment, analyzing Facebook's governance challenges.
Notable Moment
Thompson argues that Facebook critics often want Facebook's power for themselves rather than eliminating the concentrated authority entirely, missing the real structural democracy problem at stake.
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