The Facebook Dilemma

FRONTLINE conducted a major investigation of Facebook’s impact on privacy and democracy around the world.

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Comparing Wiki and Facebook brings up the design differences. These differences are tend to be more apparent based on experienced usage rather than casual observation.

- Engagement - Privacy - Federated decentralisation - Facebook centralisation - Going concern - Open-source project - Ad-tech based - Advertisement free - Collecting personal data (or not) - Obeys data collection laws (or does not) - Sharing data with 3rd parties (or not) - Sandboxed 3rd party apps vs plugins - Surveillance (or not) - Fake accounts Overdue is PhD candidate or postgraduate researcher looking into the comparative patterns and the impact on privacy and democracy.

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