I like John Oliver. His retakes of the news are insightful and very funny.
Have a look via the link below at his latest review of Facebook. He exposes the danger this poorly controlled behemoth does with a particular focus on Myanmar. In Facebook's headlong charge to capture the Myanmar market they didn't do enough due diligence and effectively became the default news medium for millions of people giving legitimacy to dangerous extremism and racist and ethnic profiling.
The fake Facebook advertisement at the end of the programme is spot on:
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John is very funny and makes some great points.
Yes but as Oliver highlights, Facebook isn't a naive and funny 'full of shit' enterprise, it's a massive and dangerous force that can have major effects on people's lives, governments and cultures.
It needs to be controlled.
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