Daily Distraction: The origin of Facebook’s ‘pandemic’

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been seeing and hearing the word pandemic a lot. The word means that a disease has spread to multiple countries and continents, affecting a large percentage of the population. Do you know what else is a pandemic? Facebook ads. And I’m not saying that because they’re present everywhere and affect a large portion of the world. It was the codename the company used when it was planning to launch its ad platform back in 2007. Here’s an exce