By Sydney Joa, 11th Grade The world came to a standstill after Facebook and its other services–Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger–experienced widespread outages last Monday. The unprecedented disruption had profound effects on worldwide networks, the internet economy, and global citizens as a whole. However, the incident is merely an indication of a much bigger issue–the monopoly of social media, and more specifically, Facebook’s dominance over it. … Continue reading A Social Media Monopoly