How to protect your privacy on FaceBook

Facebook can’t be allowed to be a tool for enemies of democracy because it fears that regulation could hurt its bottom line.

Facebook is insistent on seeing its failures merely as harming individuals, never society as a whole. The legal scholar Alexander Bickel was fond of saying, “No answer is what the wrong question begets.” Facebook has been asking the wrong question consistently for more than a decade, which is why its privacy scandals can seem like the longest running show in Silicon Valley. Recent events have offered us a chance to reframe the question about how to fix Facebook. It is one that all Americans should have a voice in answering.