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by debaserab2 3616 days ago
what exactly is Facebook a monopoly of?
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For many people, the source of information.

Yes, it does not match the nominal definition of a "monopoly", in a sense that those people are free to look for information elsewhere. But they don't, and so whatever narrative FB chooses to feed to them is what they will believe.

I guess you could call it a monopoly on attention.