In this corner, weighing bogus and bucks, Mark "Bad Actor" Zuckerberg

The social media platform famous for having a really hard time controlling data leaks and its own news feed will launch a global currency

Alexandre Botão
The Startup

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If — and that’s a rhetorical “if” — you’re an active user of Mark Zuckerberg’s ecosystem (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and/or WhatsApp), you belong to a multitude that includes something between 1 billion (Instagram) to 2.3 billion people (Facebook). Amongst other frivolous gratifications, this position gives you the benefit of two assurances in life. First: Facebook’s not going anywhere — there’s no kodak-blockbuster-compaq storyline in the foreseeable future. Second: every-exact-thing that has happened in the past years (a mix of mass reality distortion pumping into social media pipes delivered to our doors) will happen again.

I would deepen the argument by using Donald Trump’s ready-to-go strategy for the 2020 US Elections, but professor Frederic Filloux has already done it in a way I could never accomplish, so I suggest we all take five (seven, actually) to read it before we move on.

Frankly, I have zero clue if Brad Parscale’s knacks will four-more-years his boss’ way into a second term, however, there are two things I know for sure:

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Alexandre Botão
The Startup

Two decades of hardcore journalism in a past life; now Digital Media PhD candidate @ University of Porto, coffee taster and vinyl aficionado