Facebook Is a Problem. The System It Feeds Is a Bigger One.

Alarm over a new report shouldn’t stop at the social network

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It’s easy, at this point, to see any Facebook scandal as more white noise; a few million people betrayed by the social network, an egregious overreach into a user’s personal data — another day online. But you shouldn’t sleep on a fresh New York Times report about…