What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common

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Written by Bill McKibben 30 June 2020

“Facebook’s core business is to get as many people as possible to spend as many hours as possible on its site, so that it can sell those people’s attention to advertisers...this notion of core business explains a lot—including why it’s so hard to make rapid gains in the fight against climate change” (Bill McKibben, 2020).

Publisher: The New Yorker

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Categories: Media and technology, Economy, Role of Business