Quotes from Ben Smith

If Facebook's staff thought Barack Obama was the culmination of what they'd built, it turned out he was just a way station on the road to Donald Trump.

Nick Denton's core insight: in the newspaper era, the best stories were sometimes the ones reporters told one another in bars, rather than the ones they printed.

Donald Trump was made for Facebook. So was another type of content: attacks on Hillary Clinton.

Trump wasn't doing anything to game Facebook. He simply was what Facebook liked.