Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
The threat is that Facebook has become too big to fail. A major leak of private data and messages of its users would be devastating to society given the scale.<p>What happens if&#x2F;when Facebook fails as a company? What happens to the data then? It gets sold off. That&#x27;s a scary prospect.<p>Facebook is in the fickle game of Internet advertising. When the noise overcomes the signal in what Facebook shows, when the content of the users&#x27; connections gets drowned out to advertising, people will leave in droves. When advertisers fail to see the return on their investment, the money will dry up.