1. For most people in North America, Facebook outage was surely nothing more than a minor glitch & occasion for mirth. But in lots of places in the world, Facebook/Messinger/WhatsApp are the internet & the the phone line. So it's useful to think of Facebook as a public utilityhttps://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1445120599819309056 …
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2. This is right: the Facebook used in North America (last graveyard of disintegrating Boomer mind flares) is an anomaly to how company functions in Rest of World: as a public utility run by a private oligarch resistant to public responsibility https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1445380945218002953 …
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3. The two big Facebook stories of the week (the whistleblower & the outage) are really the same story, both reinforcing the fact that Facebook is a company of wide social effect which is resistant to public concerns. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/facebooks-firestorm?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …
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