Facebook's 'Screaming, Whiny Humans' Make It Hard to Control

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Facebook is still wrangling with revelations it let advertisers target anti-Semitic followers—part of what's led to what Kevin Roose calls the platform's "Frankenstein moment." Writing for the New York TimesRoose says the "series of scandals" hitting Facebook, which has "created something it can't fully control," reminds him of the part in Mary Shelley's novel when Dr. Frankenstein realizes the same, noting: "I had been the author of unalterable evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness." 

And Roose documents an intimidating list of current Facebook "evils": Russian-steered ads, censorship accusations in Myanmar, unwitting assistance to human traffickers. Roose notes he doesn't think any of this stems from "malice" on the company's part—just that Facebook seems ill-equipped to handle the enormity of these issues.

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