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But financials are just a small part of what makes Facebook so powerful. Here are some ways it dominates human attention:

• More than one billion people use Facebook each day. 1/4 of all time spent on the internet is spent using Facebook.

• For many people, Facebook is the internet. It’s the first place most people go to announce weddings, births, deaths, and other major life events.

• Facebook is increasingly the place where people consume other forms of media.

By infecting a Tesla owner's phone with Android malware, a car thief can hack and then steal a Tesla car, security researchers have revealed this week.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere is planning a major limitation of privacy rights in Germany, say data protection groups. Germans will no longer have the right to know what data about them is being collected.

The Zuckerberg Files is an archive of all public utterances of Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. It includes transcripts and bibliographic data of all publicly-available content from 2004-2014 representing the voice and words of Zuckerberg, including blog posts, letters to shareholders, media interviews, public appearances and product presentations, and quotes in other sources.

Fake news didn’t throw the election. It was a symptom, not a cause.