Usually these companies do fly in a flock and whoever makes the first movements, other companies do tend to try to, in succession, follow behind because the initial company takes the biggest media hit and then the rest of them do n’t suffer the reputational hit of being the first technology company to make a decision.

Joan Donovan

Joan Donovan is an American social scientist faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, affiliate at Data and Society, and Director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Donovan's expertise is in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns, and in January 2020, she was called to testify at the Hearing on "Americans at Risk: Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age" at Congress's Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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