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Facts about Facebook

Inside Facebook’s “cult-like” workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time. How secrecy fuels Facebook paranoia. Social media is rotting democracy from within: How social platforms enable far-right politicians’ campaigns to undermine democracy. An anti-Facebook manifesto, by an early Facebook investor: Tom Bissell reviews Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee. Megathread of Facebook’s terrible, horrible, no-good eternity. Mark Zuckerberg gives the best-case scenario for Facebook — here’s the worst case. The facts about Facebook: Zuckerberg wants to redefine “transparency, choice and control” — let's not give him consent.

Most Americans don’t know how much Facebook knows about them. We should be able to take Facebook to court: A privacy violation is a real harm. Facebook won’t fix itself: Facebook keeps saying it will do better — then doesn’t. This time, Facebook is not apologizing for the latest scandal. Facebook posts record $6.9 billion profit despite privacy scandals. A simple, yet radical solution to solve Facebook’s problems. “It’s crucial to break up Facebook”: Asher Schechter interviews Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.