>Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell.
It's a platform that has algorithms to pick what news 1/4th of the world reads. And who has access to the personal data of 1/4 of the world.
>Consider Google as well, which probably reaches even more of the world's population. Or Microsoft. Apple might be getting close, too.
Yes, but Apple just makes devices. Their Cloud services are not of the type that expert influence of FB or Google kind.(Neither is Microsoft's products).
It's a platform that has algorithms to pick what news 1/4th of the world reads. And who has access to the personal data of 1/4 of the world.
>Consider Google as well, which probably reaches even more of the world's population. Or Microsoft. Apple might be getting close, too.
Yes, but Apple just makes devices. Their Cloud services are not of the type that expert influence of FB or Google kind.(Neither is Microsoft's products).