Life in Facebookistan: Can We Escape?

“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. . .” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook post, July 7, 2016

Map of global connections between users of Facebook and its other platforms

Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, announced that “the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people.” It took the platform a little more than…