Kinda sucks that whenever major news outlets cover a social media company, they only interview the people who own the company and nobody else involved. Like here, maybe it would’ve made sense to interview a mod or someone. The way major news outlets frame it, social media outlets are theme parks and the only people who work to make it function are the owners. Most users see them more as pseduo-government leaders, and when you think about it like that it makes a lot of sense to interview the people on the ground like they do in non-tech related news pieces.
The Verge has been doing especially good with this. They’ve been communicating directly with third party app developers for their side of the story, especially when spez decides to blatantly lie about something, as he’s been frequently doing lately. They even have links on their articles for where reddit employees can send any internal emails and memos they want to leak, lol.
Kinda sucks that whenever major news outlets cover a social media company, they only interview the people who own the company and nobody else involved. Like here, maybe it would’ve made sense to interview a mod or someone. The way major news outlets frame it, social media outlets are theme parks and the only people who work to make it function are the owners. Most users see them more as pseduo-government leaders, and when you think about it like that it makes a lot of sense to interview the people on the ground like they do in non-tech related news pieces.
The Verge has been doing especially good with this. They’ve been communicating directly with third party app developers for their side of the story, especially when spez decides to blatantly lie about something, as he’s been frequently doing lately. They even have links on their articles for where reddit employees can send any internal emails and memos they want to leak, lol.