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The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself

Techdirt·September 21, 2026·1 min read
The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself

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The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.

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The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of…

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