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Facebook's 'pivot' is less about privacy and more about profits

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to bolster his embattled company.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest promise is that his social media conglomerate will become a “privacy-focused” one. By turns lauded and lambasted, this move does not quite address users’ primary problems...

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