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> From: Noelle <noelle>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:53:29 -0800 (PST)
>
> > Zuckerberg’s platforms—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and
> > Threads—are used daily by about 3.3 billion people worldwide and, as
> > Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian , explains:
> >
> > …for many people, especially in the global south, Facebook is the
> > internet. As tech writer Chris Stokel-Walker put it in a powerful
> > opinion piece: “where Meta goes, the world – online and offline –
> > follows. And Meta has just decided to take a drastic, dramatic
> > handbrake turn to the right.” Nobel peace prize-winning journalist
> > Maria Ressa said it would “allow lies, anger, fear and hate to
> > infect every single person on the platform” and lead to a “world
> > without facts”.