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Facebook news ban: Thuggery shows why we must move fast to fix it – The Australian Financial Review
Facebook has always cut a swathe of destruction, moving fast and breaking things, often apologising, but seldom fixing its flawed systems and methods.
Rather than allow Australia to create a regulatory precedent for other nations to quickly follow, it threw a spanner in the works, not in the hope of avoiding regulation altogether regulators around the world have Facebook in their cross-hairs, and theyre coming but merely as a delaying tactic.
Its not the first time Facebook has sought to maximise its short-term profit by fixing problems only slowly.
In the Cambridge Analytica scandal, emails emerged showing that Facebook was fully aware that data…
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