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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>The
architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It's
not too late to save ourselves.</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">by Adrienne
LaFrance</font></div>
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>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doom<span
></span>sday-machine/617384/</font></div>
<div>Facebook's stated mission-to make the world more open and
connected-has always seemed, to me, phony at best, and imperialist
at worst. After all, today's empires are born on the web. Facebook is
a borderless nation-state, with a population of users nearly as big as
China and India combined, and it is governed largely by secret
algorithms. Hillary Clinton told earlier this year that talking to
Zuckerberg feels like negotiating with the authoritarian head of a
foreign state. "This is a global company that has huge influence
in ways that we're only beginning to understand," she said.</div>
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