The Ugly Face(book) of Corporate Capitalism

For Paying Subscribers Only: An Advance Copy of My Upcoming Progressive Populist Column

Facebook is in the dock, so to speak.

Its practices are the subject of Congressional hearings. The algorithms it relies on to draw in new users, to link users to content, and users to advertisers are hidden from plain view and a main focus of the company’s many critics.

This criticism is well deserved. The company is insanely profitable, produces nothing,…