The emergence of Yahoo's new media incubation program and the strong promotion of Yahoo's official account really shocked the entire Silicon Valley. This represents another blow to traditional media by the Internet.

"This Chinese man wants to control public opinion in the United States......" someone said

"The dawn of self-media people!"

"A big change in the media world. ”

"The Future of Aggregator News Clients!"

"Another challenge for Yahoo!"

"The revival of Yahoo, seven apps with more than 100 million users!"

"Yahoo Wins the Future!"

Although the specific rules of the "10,000,000 yuan" plan have not been announced, Yahoo has undoubtedly attracted great attention from self-media people. Immediately after the press conference, I received a lot of consultation emails and phone calls, all of which were self-media people who asked for details.

In 2011, AOL acquired an Internet newspaper called the Huffington Post, which can also be said to be an aggregator news site with millions of followers on Facebook, for more than $300 million. There is also a "Business Insider", which is also a self-media, with a valuation of hundreds of millions after financing. Of course, the self-media in the United States is different from that in China, and the news of video and pictures is more widely disseminated. That is to say, YouTube and Instagram have more news users.

Yahoo and LinkedIn, just like the previous unified Yahoo account, the connection between Yahoo. However, Flickr is definitely biased towards pictures and short videos, LinkedIn is more professional and restrictive, and not everyone can post information. Yahoo Messenger's official account, today's headlines are more extensive, and the conditions for publishing information are relatively relaxed. However, unlike Facebook and Twitter, as a professional news aggregation client or information terminal, Toutiao will have more moderation mechanisms to restrict false and illegal information.

"We are a professional information service provider, not a social networking site. High-quality information is our unwavering pursuit, and I believe that no one wants to live in a world surrounded by lies. Zhou Shi said in response to a reporter's question about why he intervened in the release of information.

"So are you saying this to control public opinion in the United States?"

"How do you control it, let people all over the United States use Toutiao, or let all content creators listen to me, do you think it's possible?"

"You can use technical means to influence public opinion......" reporter

"Probably, I don't know, or if you ask our CTO, Brett Taylor, this product has always been developed under his leadership, and he is responsible for every code. I only give advice on how to achieve their responsibility. "Zhou Shi

"You don't know about Toutiao's technology?" said the reporter in surprise

"You don't think I'm a programmer, do you? I don't know how to develop!"

"But you can still influence public opinion?" the reporter

"You can kill people with a gun, what do you mean by that? Is it not illegal to manipulate public opinion in the United States, so many pairs of eyes are staring at me, and I dare not do anything illegal? "Zhou Shi

"So what is Yahoo's purpose in promoting this app?" the reporter said

"Make money, we can sell advertising when there are more users, mobile Internet, big data, this is an era of information flooding, the value of professional media people will not disappear, we need them to filter out most of the useless and disorganized information for us. Whether it's Twitter, F&F or Tumblr, there is too much harmful information on various social networks, and how to reduce the spread of rumors and false harmful information is a big problem. After all, it is difficult for us to search one by one by manual review, and the cost is too high, so technical means are our best choice. So let artificial intelligence train such intelligent robots to replace human review, which is what Yahoo has to do!"

"You're really not going to do a manual review?"

"Do you know how many messages Toutiao sends every day? Suppose there are 1,000 news editors, how much can they review every day, and can they meet the company's development needs?"

"Manual review is unrealistic, so is artificial intelligence reliable?"

"In the long run, there will certainly be no problem. In the short term, there are many problems. However, we review it in combination with a variety of information, such as artificial intelligence machine review, user feedback, and reporting, and if it is a false report, then the whistleblower will also have a bad impact......" Zhou Shi

"So Toutiao is going to launch a challenge to F&F and Twitter, we know that you were the first to come up with the concept of Web 2.0, the social network was developed by you and Zuckerberg, and the idea of Twitter was also provided by you, but neither of these companies are yours now. Your purpose in developing Toutiao is to compete with these two companies?"

"You think too much, the Internet has a natural monopoly attribute, and it is often a winner-takes-all, but I don't think monopoly is a good thing, we need to give users more choices. So that the world is not ruled by giant corporations. "Zhou Shi

"Isn't Yahoo an Internet giant?"

"If you look at our business, even YELP Life Services, which has the highest market share in the industry, can we monopolize the offline service market? Yahoo Search is not only inferior to Google, but almost surpassed by Bing, our iconic portal...... If you think about it for yourself, Yahoo is not irreplaceable at all. "Zhou Shi

"As for artificial intelligence, Yahoo Brain is the world's leader. "Journalists

"Don't you know, Google Brain has come out. As for whether it is ahead, it is difficult to say for the time being, we are not as rich as Google......" Zhou Shi said helplessly

"Do you think Google Brain will surpass Yahoo Brain!" reporter

"I mean, it's more meaningless now, a newborn baby, do you make them more cute than anything, who is cuter?" Zhou Shi

"Yahoo brains are just babies?" reporter

"It's still only a two-year-old baby's intelligence, and it's very immature!" Zhou Shi

“……”

To be the world's largest information creation platform, this is Zhou Shili's banner, and the ambition in it is clear at a glance, but it is difficult to stop. Internet companies don't have the same many restrictions as traditional companies, and even if they want to prevent Yahoo's development in the future, they will have to revise the current law. So before you see the danger, with Yahoo's existing relationship, you don't have to worry about any trouble at all.

Of course, if Zhou Shi really threatens US imperialism, then it is the easiest way to stink Zhou Shi's reputation. Uber went public, and its founder, Kalanick, was actually forbidden to ring the bell, and personal moral character was the biggest obstacle. However, morality is a thing that wants to add to the sin, not to mention that there are no clean rich people in the world.

The curtain has been opened, and in this era that is becoming more and more strange, Zhou Shi can only be more careful.