A Facebook employee compared Mark Zuckerberg to Lennie in “Of Mice and Men,” a man who didn’t know his own strength in the 2016 election.
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The Blue Guitar vs. Facebook
Wallace Stevens asserts that art changes “things as they are.” So does Facebook. We need the first to counteract the second when it is taken over by hostile forces.
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Facebook Escapes Its Creator
After refusing to acknowledged it was used by the Russians, Facebook is admitting that operatives did in fact buy ads that influenced the election. The Frankenstein story comes to mind.
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If Jane Austen Used Facebook . . .
To update Jane Austen, my class took eight of her characters from “Sense and Sensibility” and put them in Facebook conversation with each other.
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