Ben Smith | Secret Group Chats, Semafor, Media Fog of War Live on MTS
Ben Smith of Semafor joins MTS to discuss Marc Andreessen's retreat from media and the group chat era that followed, how Semafor was built to go straight up the middle on a polarized media landscape, and why the digital fog of war has made it harder than ever to know what's actually happening in real-time conflicts. He also reflects on BuzzFeed's collapse, the platform risk of building around X, and what Twitter has always needed but rarely had.
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