It’s Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg!

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readMay 3, 2024

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IMAGE: A comic-style illustration of a Facebook user’s feed with one update being blocked

US academic and activist Ethan Zuckerman has put Meta in a tricky situation by bringing legal action against the company for not allowing him to offer a browser extension, Unfollow Everything 2.0, which lets people use unofficial add-ons to gain more control over their social feeds.

Facebook removed the previous version of Unfollow Everything, launched in 2021, and expelled its developer, Louis Barclay, from

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)