Why Facebook wants to rewire your life

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant has an agenda that goes way beyond allowing users share a few pictures. Leonid Bershidsky explains why we should be worried.

FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations levelled at the social network in the wake of the bitter US election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document.

It shows that Facebook — launched, in Zuckerberg’s own words, to “extend people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships” — is turning into something of an extraterritorial state run by a small, unelected government that relies extensively on privately held algorithms for social engineering.