Facebook is eating the internet and becoming the Borg

This week it’s papers and phones. Next week, it’ll be your soul

By Gary Marshall

It must be amazing to work for Facebook. Where other people might encounter a minor irritation and think “ah, that’s a bit annoying”, Facebook thinks “let’s solve it by making it part of Facebook!”

That’s no doubt the thinking behind Facebook’s latest bright idea, which is to stop people visiting newspaper and magazine websites and getting them to view the content on Facebook instead.

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