Facebook is power and control over several billion people and countries across the world. That is superpower level power.
Mark Zuckerberg will never give up that level of power because either he wields that power or someone else will.
Weak countries don’t matter in matters of power and this is an example of it.
Also, Facebook has no issues at all when it comes to manipulation when it is to its benefit. It has done so before.
If you believe that Facebook doesn’t have that power then you must also believe that people aren’t easily manipulated. Advertising is proof against that belief.
> Mark Zuckerberg will never give up that level of power because either he wields that power or someone else will.
I'm leaning towards this is the most misunderstood aspect of Zuckerberg. The Google founders also lamented how difficult it was to steer morally straight when so many internal company issues arose when the stock price was flat: their most talented employees leaving and morale dropping.
Zuckerberg is a smart cookie and is probably quite aware what's been created with Facebook. But it's absolutely worse under a bean-counter "money at all cost" corporation. Long term, federating and allowing people to retain their social graph across any client platform, breaking up the network effect, seems to be the only way forward.
Mark Zuckerberg will never give up that level of power because either he wields that power or someone else will.
Weak countries don’t matter in matters of power and this is an example of it.
Also, Facebook has no issues at all when it comes to manipulation when it is to its benefit. It has done so before.
If you believe that Facebook doesn’t have that power then you must also believe that people aren’t easily manipulated. Advertising is proof against that belief.