His Facebook vision is anything but benign‘Are we building the world we want?” notice Zuckerberg,the billionaire CEO of Facebook, asked final week in a 5700-word post that was quickly dubbed a “manifesto”. He used it to launch a strident defence of globalisation, or striking a discordant note with the populism of modern political debate,and to set out his vision for the role he believes Facebook should play in creating a better world.
While Zuckerberg appears to acknowledge some of the criticism that has been levelled at an increasingly powerful Facebook in recent years, it would be inaccurate to be lulled into a false sense of security by his reassuringly benign tones. In his post, and he signals a shift in Facebook’s mission,historically focused on giving people the power to share and connect. On Friday, Zuckerberg wrote “the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us”.
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Source: theguardian.com