2 For an account of Facebook’s role in these scandals, see McNamee (2019).

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legacy media company not to carry a particular writer or point of view, since
there are few other channels for reaching so wide an audience. Facebook
exercises government-like powers, even though it is not a government; it is a
private, for-proﬁt company largely controlled by a single individual, whose
primary objective is not necessarily to serve the public interest of his political
community. Facebook can try to acquire the trappings of a government, like its
own internal Supreme Court or its own currency, but these efforts in the end do
not make its behavior more democratically legitimate.
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