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How our culture and our government gave too much power to Facebook

Capitalism offers an optimal paradigm to organize a virtuous society’s economic affairs. But virtue is a precondition for capitalism, not a product of it, and no modern phenomenon better highlights that distinction than the rise of addictive social-media platforms.

2021-10-29T12:25:23-04:00September 19th, 2021|News|

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt

A 2019 internal review of Facebook’s whitelisting practices, marked attorney-client privileged, found favoritism to those users to be both widespread and “not publicly defensible.” “We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly,” said the confidential review. It called the company’s actions “a breach of trust” and added: “Unlike the rest of our community, these people can violate our standards without any consequences.”

2021-09-24T13:57:58-04:00September 13th, 2021|News|
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