![]() All of these companies have hired tons of political operatives, who know how to do political campaigns. The second reason why this is happening is that the political world has spent years beating on Silicon Valley to be “more engaged” in politics, and so much is now being driven by how things look through a political lens that it’s become controlling in many ways. But there are still elements of truth in all of these complaints, and companies need to recognize even more, that these challenges are both structural and potentially existential, rather than one of people just being “unfair” in their coverage. To some extent, it goes back to the popular saying: “We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.” When these companies are getting attacked over their actions, they often feel wronged by the coverage, which they feel is unfair, because the press are often judging the decisions absent larger context that shows how they reached those results. It’s not difficult to see why this is happening. It should be noted, of course, that all of these companies are a bit different, and they all do take different approaches to the market, but over the last few years, especially, one thing that has shined through with many of these companies is that they’ve dealt with the challenges suddenly being directed at them as political issues, rather than structural issues. This one is more directed at the people who work at all of the big tech companies: Stop thinking about running your companies as political campaigns, and focus most on what is best for end-users. I wanted to write a follow up post, though, to make a slightly different point. Indeed, a followup story from the NY Times last week showed that a bunch of other tech companies - namely Lyft, Lime, Juul and Qualcomm - all had hired the very same “Definers” firm that Facebook had hired to smear its opponents. Karl’s post focused on just how many companies make use of similar political smear campaigns, and everyone (including the press) should be much more tuned into this kind of thing. The acclaimed, Berkeley-based Boichik Bagels has opened an outpost in Palo Alto.Tue, Nov 27th 2018 09:35am - Mike MasnickĪ couple weeks back Karl wrote up an excellent analysis of the NY Times’ big piece looking at how Facebook tried to deal with ongoing criticism of the company concerning the influence operations that it appears Russians used their site for.The Slow Street on Lake Street remains the most contentious issue facing the SFMTA's Slow Streets program.The Supreme Court justices sparred in court Monday, well past the 70 minutes allotted, regarding a Colorado case in which a graphic designer wants to be able to refuse service for gay weddings. ![]() The man who shot Lady Gaga's dog walker in Feb.A man was fatally shot Saturday morning on the 300 block of Peralta Street near 3rd Street in West Oakland, in the vicinity of a tiny home village for the recently homeless.SF's Department of Police Accountability released an interim report this week blasting the SFPD for its lack of transparency about police misconduct.In a special session of the legislature, Governor Gavin Newsom introduced a proposed penalty aimed at deterring oil companies from excessive gas price increases. ![]()
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