Siva Vaidhyanathan: ‘There Is No Way for Them To Fix Facebook; The Problem with Facebook Is Facebook’

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VAIDHYANATHAN: "Facebook could and in fact did affect how many people voted in a particular place. That might sway a local legislative race and state of Florida because that was 114,000 votes in November. Right? So Facebook has the ability to do more than its ever imagined. The thing is, you know, I like how Carol put it about being weaponized. We have a system that unlike anything else we’ve seen in human history. Trying to find the metaphor it fits in. Facebook is Facebook. There is is nothing like it. There will never be another thing like it. If you design from ground up a system that would benefit leaders and benefit various forms of nationalists, you could not do better than to invent Facebook. That’s not all it does. It’s great for puppies and babies and — "