Little more than a year ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg published a nearly 6,000-word manifesto on how Facebook intended to build a global community.
Alternating saccharine-sweet PR-speak with techno-optimistic babble, Zuckerberg trumpeted that “progress now requires humanity coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.” In an age when both the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation appear weaker than ever, I am not sure I even understood what he meant. Zuckerberg’s bombast, timed it seemed to deflect pressure last year about ...
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First Published: Fri, March 23 2018. 14:05 IST
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