Commentary: It was a bad week for the internet
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Mar 28, 2018
3 minutes
The word "breach" evidently struck terror in the heart of Facebook last week. On March 16, the company brass pressured the Guardian not to use it, threatening to sue, according to a reporter's tweet.
As Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his coterie well knew, the U.K. newspaper was readying a dramatic expose that was not exactly going to redound to the glory of Facebook.
Facebook, the world was about to learn, had not just been infested with Russian trolls creating
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