Facebook Finally Blinks
Mark Zuckerberg’s radical decision to reinvent the News Feed is a plea for mercy.
by Franklin Foer
Jan 11, 2018
4 minutes
Mark Zuckerberg moved fast and broke shit, lots of shit.
He , by radically deflating the value of the digital advertising on which the livelihood of media now depends; he broke the reading habits of his users, the lab rats in his grand experiment, by constantly manipulating them and feeding them an endless stream of dreck to jack up their “engagement” with his site; and in a way, he , by sitting on his hands as a foreign adversary exploited his platform and by creating the world’s most efficient vehicle for spreading political lies and agitprop. Now, with that he’s largely stripping the News Feed
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