Monday’s #MustRead List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. For Facebook, It’s All About the Bottom Line (Foreign Policy)
2. Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting (The Verge)
3. Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next? (The Atlantic)
4. Can Regulation Douse Populism’s Online Fires? (Foreign Policy)
5. He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World (The New York Times)
6. Europe seizes on social media’s purging of Trump to bang the drum for regulation (TechCrunch)
7. Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how (MIT Technology Review)
8. Unit 81: The elite military unit that caused a big bang in the Israeli tech scene (Calcalist)
9. One hundred years since a hellish vision of technology spawned that fateful word: robot (The Guardian)

Some light reading- The Origins of the Species (Charles Darwin)