NYTIMES - In the face-off last week between the news media and social media in Australia, I think I am on Rupert Murdoch's side for once. Unless I am on Mark Zuckerberg's. It is an awful choice.
Do I root for the wizened media titan who controls News Corp and his longtime efforts to wrest power from the tech giants that have made mincemeat of the journalism economy? Or do I stand with the king of Facebook and the bedrock Internet principle that sharing hyperlinks should be free and open, even though Mr Zuckerberg's creation has become the prime distributor of lies and hate speech, threatening to swamp us all?
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