We can’t let tech giants, like Facebook and Twitter, control our news values

By iftttpYoHns6
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
We can’t let tech giants, like Facebook and Twitter, control our news values
Several years ago, Vint Cerf visited the Guardian in his capacity as Google’s “evangelist in chief” – the kind of Silicon Valley title you can carry off only if you have invented the internet, which, luckily for Cerf, he had.

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