Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, … - Tim Wu

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Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.

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