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The latest fake from Facebook

"The board will increase or decrease in size as appropriate", Facebook writes vaguely this week. Even if it were proposing one board member per market of operation that would require a single individual to meaningfully represent the diverse views of an entire country. Which would be ludicrous, as well as risking the usual political divides from styming good faith effort.

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