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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

“Mark Zuckerberg runs a nation-state, and he’s the king” by Henry Farrell, Margaret Levi, and Tim O'Reilly, Vox (2018).

This piece attempts to apply political theories of monarchical power to Mark Zuckerberg’s management of Facebook. Does this comparison seem far-fetched? How do you feel about the author’s suggestion that powerful platform managers should “tie their own hands” for the sake of the public?