'Facebook is an autocracy - one person decides how policy is implicated,' says tech expert Toby Shapshak.
“Facebook is an autocracy — one person decides how policy is implicated. As it transpired people like [former president Donald] Trump and A-list celebrities benefited more than other users.
“This is the worst kind of competition. People were using both WhatsApp and Facebook, when Facebook bought WhatsApp this specific kind of anti-competitiveness not allowed.” The scariest thing is the knock-on effect the Facebook ecosystems had when the site went down and we realise how dependent we are on the organisation.saying fears about anti-competitiveness were unfounded, at the beginning of the year WhatsApp's new data privacy policy allowed it to share“It's insane ... and Facebook is notoriously bad at protecting private [information].”
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