What Comes After The Social Media Empires

Posted Thursday, April 19, 2018 7:52 am

Ben Smith | BuzzFeed

The intense political battles over Facebook and the other giant social media companies mark the end of the empire-building phase of those companies’ history.

Now they’re a mid-20th-century European power, agonizing over the inevitable loss of the colonies and trying to stomp out insurgencies.

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What Comes After The Social Media Empires

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