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Twitter and Facebook want to shift power to users. Or do they?

via The New York Times

Dec. 18, 2019

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By Nathaniel Popper

SAN FRANCISCO — Not so long ago, the technology behind Bitcoin was seen in Silicon Valley as the best hope for challenging the enormous, centralized power of companies like Twitter and Facebook.

Now, in an unexpected twist, the internet giants think that technology could help them solve their many problems.

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