In April 2016, seven months before the U.S. elected Donald Trump as president, Mark Zuckerberg told an audience of Facebook developers that his company was "building the technology to give everyone the power to share anything they want with anyone else."
This was vintage Zuckerberg: optimistic, naive, sheltered in Harvard-graduate, Silicon-Valley privilege, with a belief that connecting everyone, no matter who they were or what they were saying, would inherently be good for the world.
