Joe Nocera, Columnist

One of Facebook’s Biggest Fans Is Angry Now

David Kirkpatrick says he was naïve about the social network as a force for good. Why can’t Mark Zuckerberg admit the same?

But is it repairable?

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“Never before has one company’s failure had such a devastating effect on the world,” wrote the technology journalist David Kirkpatrick recently.1

He continued: