Timothy Crook observed that maybe the problem is not breaking up big platforms, but that the entire attentional competition market is cursed by toxic business models (manipulation, addiction). Breaking up platforms won't fix this if smaller platforms use the same toxic models.

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Ezra Klein

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maybe the problem is that the entire thing that the companies are trying to do, whether there are two of them or 50 of them, is negative

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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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