Opinion piece: "Freeness" is paid for with advertising. Isn't that the Facebook model? Personally I limit my exposure to ads anyway I can, there's way too much of it already, turn the car radio volume down when the content goes to commercial, annoy Facebook with spam reports for every ad that shows up in my feed, switch the channel on TV commercial segments, turn down the volume on You Tube ad intros, I even skip to the content on the SDTM vids and bypass the ads. Zach has thrown some in the middle of the vid, but as a user you can't block them all! Anyway, it's good business if that's the model and a successful model already for others. It's a risk of trust, who trusts Zuckerberg anymore? A risk of conflict of interest for sure, but some of the content should be critical as a check and balance if needed. Heck here in Boston, the Red Sox owners own the Boston Globe. Who guarantees impartiality? Nobody really, just bypass the ads if they are annoying. It's pinball! 
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