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Tim Wu
Potpurri
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Facebook
Social Media in the News
100

Advertisers are responsible for changing this social norm concerning women and smoking. 

They normalized women smoking outside. 

100

The "attention economy" refers to getting something seemingly for free when in fact you are paying with your what?

Your attention 

100

She is one of the senators from our section 230 game. 

[judge's call]

100

The Facebook whistleblower's name is 

Francis Haugen

100

This STL-born social media CEO stepped down last week. 

Jack Dorsey

200
According to Wu, this is probably the most important anti-attention economy device of all time. 

The remote control 

200

Social media is often compared to this other addictive product. 

Cigarettes

200

She is the BOSS of the FTC (and was played by Anderson). 

Lina Khan

200

Name a Facebook employee whose names doesn't start with Mark Zuckerberg. 

[judge's call]

Boz

Sheryl Sandberg 

200

Name one social media platform Trump hasn't been kicked off of. 

Yelp!, Goodreads, many answers
300

This was a common problem with "patent medicine." 

It was unregulated and often made you sicker rather than better. 

300

This is the name of Donald Trump's almost certainly ill-fated social media platform. 

Truth social 

300

Jonah Perreti founded this famous/infamous site. 

Buzzfeed

300

Facebook can trace its origins to what university. 

Harvard. 

300

Instagram recently announced they're scrapping plans for this new product intended for a younger user base. 

Instagram Kids

400

This is the one reason why google's advertising is so successful. 

Ads are highly targeted to people who have expressed an interest in buying a specific type of product. 

400

Some experts say Google is likely to get "broken up" because it is a what? 

A Monopoly

400

This intrepid journalist who covers all things tech was portrayed by Sully. 

Cara Swisher 

400

Facebook was originally called what?

The Facebook 

400

Facebook is no more (sort of). It is now called what?

Meta

500

"The invention of prime time" occurred on this medium.

Radio

500

The Facebook virtual reality headset is called the what? 

Oculus Rift

500

Mackenzie represented her home state when she played this right-leaning, Facebook-dissing senator.  

Josh Hawley 

500
This is an early Facebook competitor whose CEO was a guy named Tom.

MySpace 

500

AI-generated fake influencers who look like people but won't ever get themselves cancelled are called what? 

Avatars/Virtual Influencers