Facebook has ultimately given up on its core mission to connect people and to trigger meaningful conversations. Starting this week, Meta is kicking friends and news off their homepages. Instead, creator clips and viral videos are being featured in Facebook and Instagram timelines worldwide. …

Facebook knows when you’re having your period. Google notes which porn sites you visit. Since government hasn’t acted, Apple is taking on the role of privacy advocate and declaring war on surveillance capitalism. What could possibly go wrong? It started with a question. A simple yes/no question that shook Silicon…

I watched the Congressional Hearing over misinformation from last week - 5 hours and 40 minutes, the whole damned thing. Here is what I’ve learned. These types of hearings (there were a few in the past) are not being held to gain knowledge or to regulate Big Tech. These hearings…

30 years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the introduction of the World Wide Web changed our world forever. While most media industries have successfully transformed their businesses into digital services, many news outlets are struggling. What happened in this transformational process? And where did publishers go astray? …

My view of Journalism 2020 and why I think we must move faster - 5G faster A few years ago, a barber asked me what my profession was. I replied I was a journalist. “What for?” he asked. Me: “That’s what I keep wondering myself.” So what are we doing…

Facebook at SXSW There are quite a few things I have done in my life that I’m not too proud of, but what happened today might have been one of the worst. I made a complete fool of myself in front of hundreds of people who had come to South-by-Southwest to have a…

The Truth is out there, somewhere — but so are the Lies — The doubts first sneaked in with the internet. And now mistrust towards the media has hit rock bottom. …

Die Wahrheit ist irgendwo da draussen — die Lügen auch. — >>> English text version Mit dem Internet kamen die Zweifel. Selten war das Misstrauen gegenüber den Medien größer. Es ist, als würden sich die Menschen zum ersten Mal aus Platons Höhle bewegen und feststellen, dass die Schattenspiele auf dem Fernsehbildschirm lediglich Abbild einer größeren, weitaus komplexeren Welt sind. Platons Höhlengleichnis…

Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 really shot down by pro-Russian Militias? Who was behind the poison gas attacks in Syria? A startup from Israel worked out a methodology to help bringing the truth to light even from the murkiest of situations. …