SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Fifteen years after its founding, Facebook has made strides toward Mark Zuckerberg's goal of connecting the world. The platform is behind free, stand-alone smartphone apps Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, each of which has more than a billion users. He maintained that the social network makes money from targeting ads based on what it learns about users, keeping the service free. Bernoff saw Zuckerberg's latest defense as contending that Facebook is here to help people, and thus can be trusted. "The trolls have a financial incentive to pervert the way Facebook works, and it is costly for Facebook to prevent that," Bernoff said.

Source: Philippine Star February 01, 2019 03:19 UTC