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Nine tips for Mark Zuckerberg if he's serious about Facebook, public good

Societies would have to educate people about how they can recognise or discover the truth

Facebook, Mark Zukerberg
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Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has previously said he considers Facebook a technology entity but the social network has faced more questions over the past 18 months about how what it shows on its site affects its roughly 1.8 bn members

George Brock | The Conversation

Here’s a mystery about Facebook. The people in California who run the world’s largest social network (1.9 billion users at last count) have been trying to explain and defend what they do. In an essay of more than 5,000 words written in a style which reads as if it is the work of many hands, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg explains his wish to build a “global community”.

The puzzle is this. If I were marking this as a student essay I’d be grading “Building Global Community” as a B-minus. The terms are vague, obvious questions begged are ignored