Beyond business: Facebook’s role as a social institution against epistemic injustice

• Main Author: Venegas, Sarah Jane B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Social media; Social institutions; Epistemics; Justice
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_philo/5
• Institution: De La Salle University

A prevalent way of understanding Facebook, the biggest social media network, is by looking at it as a business. From its approach in many lawsuits against human rights, to its platform decisions, Facebook recognizes itself primarily as a business. While this is not inherently harmful, there are issu...