Opinion | Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/facebook-zuckerberg-2020-election.html?smid=tw-share
Facebook is too big for democracy. On Thursday, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the company’s “New Steps to Protect the U.S. Elections.” They include blocking new political ads in the week leading up to Election Day and attaching labels to posts containing misinformation, specifically related to the coronavirus and posts from politicians declaring victory before all the results are counted. One can — and many will — debate just how effective these measures will be at (...)