To say that Facebook wields more power in people's lives than their government is simply a gross exaggeration. We're not living in Robocop, yet, where a single corporate entity has rendered the government moot. We're not even close. Not saying it's a scenario that can't come true. But we're simply not there.
Local and national governments are a powerful presence in our daily lives in countless ways that are impossible to avoid whereas Facebook is just an app you can delete from your phone any time you want without any repercussions whatsover.
I suspect Facebook and other apps like that are tools made use of by the US intelligence services. They're US based corporations that I suspect can be forced by the government to co-operate on national security grounds.
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