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Zuckerberg had long held a mechanistic view of society. From Facebook’s early days, he would refer to the social network as a “graph,” a term of art borrowed from the mathematical discipline of network theory. One of the curiosities of the early twenty-first century is the way so much power over social relations came into the hands of young men with more interest in numbers than in people.