The social web is dying. Is that a good thing? Highlight

Derek Thompson also weighed in with a piece about how everything is turning into television, a transformation he says was driven for the most part by TikTok and also AI. In its recent antitrust case with the Federal Trade Commission, he notes that Meta filed a legal brief on August 6, in which it made the somewhat startling claim that it is not a social media monopoly because it isn’t really a social media company. Only a small share of time spent on its social-networking platforms is truly “social” networking, the company said — that is, time spent checking in with friends and family. More than 80 percent of the time spent on Facebook and more than 90 percent of time spent on Instagram is spent watching videos, in most cases from creators whom the user does not know.