When Facebook is not just a threat to people’s privacy, but to their lives.

From Weekly Filet #271, in April 2018.

Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match

Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match

The New York Times

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