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Facebook's power continues to grow at an unsettling rate with its partnership with TakeTwo Interactive following, the board of directors rejected the two-billion-dollar bid by EA. This partnership, a primarily the initiative of Facebook, aims to create a social media center for gaming, thus further allowing Facebook’s power to grow, with a source quoting that if Facebook was a government agency, its power would be as undisputed as it would be frightening. This draws parallels to Coca Cola’s providing the king [of Swaziland] with the economic strength to crush opposition and continue “milking the country.” It seems that we are moving into an era where the power wielded by massive corporations is beginning to have a larger and larger impact on our lives, whether it be the effects of Coca Cola’s operations in Swaziland or the fear [of] what Facebook and its ilk are doing with the reams of personal data they hoover up in our wake as we go about our business on the internet. As such this newfound partnership between Facebook and TakeTwo Interactive needs to be considered for its implications and the increasing power it gives to the corporations involved.

FACEBOOK ARTICLE (http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/facebooks-power-should-worry-us-all-20111009-1lfu0.html)

TAKETWO INTERACTIVE ARTICLE (http://news.smh.com.au/technology/deadline-passes-in-ea-bid-to-buy-taketwo-interactive-shares-20080517-2far.html)

COCACOLA ARTICLE (http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/coca-cola-power-swaziland-promote-social-justice/)