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    The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism

    Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it.
    by Adrienne LaFrance Feb 17, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: Stephen Lam / Reuters

    It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news organizations are perhaps the biggest casualty of the world Zuckerberg built.

    There’s reason to believe things are going to get worse.

    A sprawling new manifesto by Zuckerberg, published to Facebook on Thursday, should set off new alarm bells for journalists, and heighten news organizations’ sense of urgency about how they—and their industry—can survive in a Facebook-dominated world.

    Facebook’s existing threat to journalism is well established. It is, at its core, about the flow of the advertising dollars that news organizations once counted on. In this way, Facebook’s role is a continuation of what began in 1995, when Craigslist was founded. Its founder, Craig Newmark, didn’t actively aim to decimate newspapers, but Craigslist still eviscerated a crucial

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