After a year of controversy over Facebook Inc.’s role in spreading misinformation and handling violent images, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg now is positioning the company as the backbone of what he hopes will be a new “social infrastructure” addressing some of humanity’s biggest problems. In a nearly 6,000-word manifesto Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg outlined ambitions for the 13-year-old social network to play a larger role in...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 16, 2017 21:13 UTC