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Aftab Ahmed on Meta鈥檚 dominance | Policy Magazine
Published: 23 January 2025
January 22, 2025 |聽Alumnus Aftab Ahmed MPP'23 wrote about growing as social media applications such as Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp聽command聽over three billion active monthly users worldwide. In the Policy Magazine, he wrote "Meta faces no competition capable of challenging its influence. That monopoly, when exercised in aid of a particular ideology or regime, especially one with a proven anti-democracy agenda, essentially gives it the power of a conventional intelligence entity without the oversight." Without institution-led editorial oversight or gatekeeping designed to prevent real-world harm, Meta risks becoming the worst version of itself: a global accelerant for public harm arising from social media.