It's even worse than it appears.
Friday September 17, 2021; 11:31 AM EDT
Facebook is at least eight things#
  • Here's the list. #
    • Mark Zuckerberg. #
    • A public corporation.#
    • 60K employees. #
    • Servers, software, other tech.#
    • An advertising platform.#
    • A user community.#
    • Connections to the rest of the web.#
    • All the content -- video, images, posts, comments, live events, current and past.#
  • When journalism refers to "Facebook" I don't think they're ever clear on which Facebook they're talking about.#
  • Each of the different Facebooks are limited by the others. #
  • But if you are aware of all the different things "Facebook" is, their stories are usually mush. #

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