&#x27;Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution. “When news is as fast as everything else on Facebook, people will naturally read a lot more news,”&#x27;<p>Oh lord. That&#x27;s not news. Those are sensationalist, click baity headlines making us all collectively dumber. It&#x27;s anecdotal, but I&#x27;m quite sure the &#x27;news&#x27; my girlfriend has gotten from FB has made her less informed.<p>I actually wrote an FF plugin to hide that right bar, since I would now and then get sucked in by that crap and waste 15 minutes reading about Lindsey Lohan or whatever.