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Facebook is in the grip of an existential crisis. The big blue network seems to be stumbling from crisis to crisis. Facebook\u2019s reputation has been dragged through the dirt from crises ranging from personal privacy to democracy-defeating mass data misuse. Whenever the social giant responds to one crisis, another rears its head.<\/p>\n
Facebook deliberately shared your data with 60 companies \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n Facebook banned \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Facebook suspends over 200 apps in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n Facebook deletes over 200 accounts and pages linked to Russian troll farm \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n The reasons for these continuous crises will be long and complicated, but at the heart of all of them will be Facebook\u2019s efforts to move beyond what it is. For years now, Facebook has neglected its core purpose of bringing friends and family together via the internet, in favor of finding new digital markets it can then try to dominate and even manipulate. Whatever your opinions on all of that, it could be seen as a little heartwarming at least to see Facebook introducing a new feature that harks back to those innocent old days when Facebook was just a social network.<\/p>\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ![\"Facebook\"](\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/8a6eafba-96d2-11e6-b334-00163ec9f5fa\/77332936\/facebook-logo.png\"){kind=logo}
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