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(image) This article - Early Facebook App Causes Is Being Reborn As A Polished Web Site For Good - caught my eye as I was nodding off last night (thanks so much for moving the web into my bedroom, Flipboard. No really.) Now, it didn't catch my eye because of its subject - Causes - but…

Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world Siva Vaidhyanathan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images The world is a lot better off without Donald Trump as president of the United States. And Facebook is a lot more peaceful without Trump’s unhinged calls for vengeance against his political opponents and fabricated tales of voter fraud echoing across the platform. What’s more, the world is a lot better off now that T...

The board deliberated for four months after Facebook itself appealed its own January ban of Trump. Trump had praised and encouraged the invasion of the US Capitol building on 6 January when five people died in the violence, in what was a clear assault not only on the process of legitimately selecting Trump’s successor but on American democracy itself. In doing so, the board not only came to the most obvious short-term decision, it exposed the limits of its utility. Instead of considering more...