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Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, has some compelling theories on how Facebook became whaat it is.

The Atlantic joins many other sites in turning off comments - but that doesn’t mean its abandoning reader commentary.