Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean
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In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks it can intimidate governments. If it keeps doing this, it will ultimately lose customers, and that’s the last thing Facebook wants. Perhaps you’re already considering breaking up with Facebook, whether in reaction to the news ban, or out of a broader unease about its business model, which profiles its users with the goal of earning revenue from targeted advertising.
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© The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work
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Communications engineering
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Tuffley, D, Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean, The Conversation, 2021