Facebook is eating the world

SOMETHING REALLY DRAMATIC is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism ... without the level of public examination and debate it deserves.
news publishers have lost control over distribution... increase in power of social media companies... a far greater concentration of power ... Networks favor economies of scale, so our careful curation of plurality ... disappears at a stroke
make advertising that doesn’t look like advertising, so ad blockers can’t ... “native advertising,” has grown to nearly a quarter of all digital display advertising ...
We are handing the controls of important parts of our public and private lives to a very small number of people, who are unelected and unaccountable. We need regulation to make sure all citizens gain equal access to the networks of opportunity and services they need. We also need to know that all public speech and expression will be treated transparently, even if they cannot be treated equally. ...
producing news is likely to become a nonprofit pursuit rather than an engine of capitalism.