A history of the Facebook critique "if you're not paying, you're the product" and why it wrongly paints users as powerless pawns incapable of demanding change (Will Oremus/Slate)

Will Oremus / Slate:
A history of the Facebook critique “if you're not paying, you're the product” and why it wrongly paints users as powerless pawns incapable of demanding change  —  The history of a dangerous idea.  —  On March 21, at the height of the scandal over Cambridge Analytica's harvesting …

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