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How far would Facebook go to maximize its profit?

In a June 2016 memo, Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth wrote that connecting people on Facebook can be good, and bad. "Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies,” he wrote. He continued: "The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good." Bosworth sent the memo three days after a man in Chicago was shot dead during his Facebook Live broadcast.
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