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That depends on the asset.

I can argue that Facebook's incentive to help politicians manipulate my community has far greater impact on me. Thanks to Facebook and Twitter enabling algorithmic propaganda, I will lose my right to live and work in the UK.

I wonder how organic were all these uprisings that were organised on Facebook and Twitter. These things changed the middle east and Europe.

Check out Zeynep Tufekci, a scholar doing wonderful job in researching these issues. Recent article of hers: https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-n...

In my opinion, Facebook and Twitter will be harnessed by local governments to control the conversation OR countries will replace them with local alternatives like in China, effectively ending the democratic processes.

Decentralised networks with incentives of profiting directly from the users by providing services directly to the users have great potential to become the thing that internet was promised to be.