> Strictly speaking, Facebook is a public company that exists only to serve its shareholder's interests.
That's a very US-centric interpretation, which fits because Facebook is a US company.
But it's still reductive to the issue considering how Facebook's reach is also far and wide outside the US.
In that context, it's not really that much of an unsolvable dilemma, it only appears as such when the notion of "shareholder gains above all else" is considered some kind of "holy grail thu shall never challenge".
That's a very US-centric interpretation, which fits because Facebook is a US company.
But it's still reductive to the issue considering how Facebook's reach is also far and wide outside the US.
In that context, it's not really that much of an unsolvable dilemma, it only appears as such when the notion of "shareholder gains above all else" is considered some kind of "holy grail thu shall never challenge".