How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk
https://www.platformer.news/p/ev-williams-gives-up
* wrote in 2012
* Ben Mullin at the
* New York Times
* Williams offered buyouts to all of its roughly 75 editorial employees
* his desire to make Medium a place for high-quality writing
* internet was broken
* he intended to fix it
* content farms
* rote an essential guide to Williams’ whipsawing in 2019
* my ethics disclosure about Substac
* Twitter sued Elon Musk in an effort to force him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the company
* one of the options we talked about here yesterday
* casey@platformer.news