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Can Silicon Valley's autocrats save democracy?

  • Written by Jerry Davis, Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan

In late February, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an essay that laid out the social network’s vision for the coming years.

The 5,700-word document, immediately dubbed a “manifesto,” was his most extensive discussion of Facebook’s place in the social world since it went public in 2012. Although it reads to...

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