Don’t Trust Facebook’s New Privacy Play
Mark Zuckerberg has ambitions to control a platform where billions conduct their private, encrypted conversations.
by Conor Friedersdorf
Mar 12, 2019
2 minutes
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published his latest manifesto: a public memo titled “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking.” There’s growing demand for “privacy-focused communications,” he wrote. So while classic Facebook isn’t going away, he sees an opportunity to build a simpler platform “focused on privacy first.” What follows is masterfully subtle misdirection.
“I understand that many people don’t think Facebook can or would even want
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