This isn’t how the internet is supposed to work. Just as social media can ruin someone, so too can it - through time, persistence and audacity - bury a troubled past.” “Tweet by tweet, his online persona grew back,” Weise writes.
Then, over the years, Price began to master Twitter, eventually collecting hundreds of thousands of followers and becoming a fixture in some left-leaning Twitter circles. Price, who denounced Weise’s Bloomberg article as “reckless” and “baseless,” was canceled temporarily after the story appeared. “He has used his celebrity to pursue women online who say he hurt them, both physically and emotionally,” Weise reported, interviewing more than a dozen women who recounted ugly encounters with him in detail. who became internet famous in 2015 for instituting a $70,000-a-year minimum wage at his Seattle-based credit card processing company. Karen Weise, a Times reporter who covers the technology industry, had a blockbuster story last week documenting a pattern of hostile and abusive behavior by Dan Price, the C.E.O. And I worry that it has become more difficult than ever to tune in to any signal amid so much digital noise.
But a recent story got me fretting about all this once more. These aren’t new questions they’re actually things I’ve been wondering for about as long as I’ve been covering the digital world, and the answers keep changing as the internet changes. Are you getting an accurate picture of that person’s life or a false, manipulated one? The internet is the most comprehensive compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, but is its size a feature or a bug? Does its very immensity undermine its utility as a source of information? How often is it burying valuable data under lots of junk? Say you search for some famous or semifamous person - a celebrity, influencer, politician or pundit.
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