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Facebook at 15: It's not all bad, but now it must be good

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Doth the CEO protest too much?AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

It is almost too easy to bash Facebook these days. Nearly a third of Americans feel the country’s most popular social media platform is bad for society. As the company approaches its 15th birthday, Americans rate its social benefit as better than Marlboro cigarettes, but worse than...

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