Facebook's Evolving Approach to Platform Governance

It’s now been 5 days since Slide’s Top Friends application disappeared from the Facebook Platform as a result of an apparent Developer Terms of Service violation. This suspension is the most severe punitive action imposed by the Facebook Platform team that the development community has seen yet, and is at least in some sense emblematic of Facebook’s evolving approach to Platform governance and regulation.

Throughout most of this year, Facebook has taken fairly a fairly algorithmic approach to regulating the Platform economy.

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