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It’s easy to scoff at Facebook’s old mission to “connect the world,” but the stark reality is that many of us genuinely believed that the internet could be used to empower everyday people in new and uplifting ways. We were hopeful. We were also naive. We were focused on what youth and hobbyists and activists were doing with the new tool at their disposal. We weren’t attending to how the rich and powerful were limiting which futures were possible in order to ensure that their desired futures w...