“Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
2022
“Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
2022
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 23
“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
Sheryll Murray (1956) British politician
Said in an interview with the Cornish Times. General election interviews: Sheryll Murray http://www.cornish-times.co.uk/article.cfm?id=110255&headline=General%20election%20interviews:%20Sheryll%20Murray&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2017 (6 June 2017) <br class="br">2017
“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
David Mitchell (1969) English novelist
Part 5
number9dream (2001)
Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society, 2007
Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji
Reaction to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, 7 February 2006
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
It's social media. It gets out. I have, you know, hundreds of millions of people. Number one on Facebook. Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I mean, I just found out I'm number one on Facebook. I thought that was very nice for whatever it means. No, it represents something. And when I can explain to people: Just don't do it. You know, it's going to be bad if you do it. It's going to be really bad. And they don't need to do it. They have enough problems. Iran has enough problems without doing that. But we’ve been pulling back very substantially over the last year, in Iraq. And so, you know, that's the way it is.
Coronavirus task force press briefing, , quoted in * 2020-04-01
Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing
James S. Brady
White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-16/. At that time, Trump had 26 million likes and 28 million followers on Facebook, while President Barack Obama had 55 million likes and 53 million followers.
2020s, 2020, April
