Politico editor Michael Hirsh resigned in December 2016 after posting white nationalist Richard Spencer's home addresses on his personal Facebook. The reference case in personal-account-as-institutional-act.
From the November 2016 Jack Dorsey self-suspension through Trump 2021, the Durov 2024 arrest, Community Notes on Musk, and the AI engine leadership question — the platform-policy-on-platform-leadership case file.
Employee advocacy is the practice of equipping employees to publicly advance their employer's brand. Salesforce's Ohana culture, Trailblazer Community, and Marc Benioff's posting cadence make it the canonical operating example.
November 2016: German prosecutors opened a criminal hate-speech investigation into Mark Zuckerberg and senior Facebook executives. Nine years later, the case reads as the structural origin of NetzDG and the EU Digital Services Act — the European platform-liability regime now governing every major platform in the bloc.
Five challengers — Olipop, HexClad, Jones Road, Bilt, MUD/WTR — beat their incumbents with a fraction of the budget. The pattern is the same every time.
Twitter — now X — has spent a decade as the most-studied trust-and-safety environment in social media history. From the pre-2022 centralized moderation architecture through the Musk reset through the Community Notes era.
In 2016 the NCAA pulled tournament after tournament out of North Carolina to protest HB2 — the template for how leagues and corporations now use event geography as leverage on state legislation.
Some of the most valuable brands in America barely post. Others wouldn't exist without TikTok. The honest answer isn't "it depends" — it's "yes, if you have a different distribution moat."
ESPN fired Curt Schilling in 2016 over a Facebook post. He never returned to a major network. The case became the early template for the social-media-era career end — and the pattern Roseanne, Gunn, Lemon, and dozens of others followed.
Up until about 1440 when Guttenberg created his movable type printing press, people got information almost exclusively by word of mouth.