Russian Meddling Is Only One Challenge Facing The Social-media Giant

The Economist: Business, The Economist
Thu, 02/22/2018 - 4:03am

IN ITS early days Facebook embraced the motto “move fast and break things” to describe its engineers’ strategy of rapid innovation. “Move slowly, and try not to break anything else” seems to be its new creed. In the last year Facebook has contended with several controversies, including charges that it helped spread false news, unwittingly facilitated Russian meddling in the 2016 election and fanned political polarisation (see Briefing).

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