Mark Zuckerberg is Pharaoh.
I say this neither glibly nor lightly nor in jest: The company he runs, Facebook, is dedicated to ensuring that each of us becomes chattel—its to sell, trade, or use as it sees fit. This week, barely a few weeks after we've learned that the company delivered the personal data of 50 million users to Cambridge Analytica, a shadowy British political firm that used it to questionable ends, comes the news that Facebook has been collecting and storing years' worth of its users' contact names, telephone numbers, call lengths, and text messages, activities that occur independently of its application and yet are considered fair play by the social-media giant. A whopping 95 percent of young adults active online currently use a Facebook product; together with Twitter and Snapchat, the platform is the primary news source for 67 percent of Americans, or 78 percent of Americans younger than 50.
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