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

“Mark Zuckerberg wants to democratize Facebook — here’s what happened when he tried” by Adi Robertson, The Verge (2018).

In February 2009, Facebook announced a new site governance system built around user votes. Why do you think this democratic model – under which some difficult policy decisions would have been made by users – might have been attractive to Facebook’s leadership? If it had been fully realized, what limitations might it have had?