The proof that Facebook is broken is obvious from its very modus operandi | John Naughton Read moreThat’s why I’m struck by your Facebook post. By turning the focus away from Facebook to “the internet” you try to fool us into conflating the two. The fact is that the structure and function of Facebook is antithetic to the ideology of the internet. No one who, like me, championed the values of the Internet back before Facebook ruined everything, can be fooled by your rhetorical trick. Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2019 00:45 UTC