Businesses pretend to have human feelings … to exploit grief.
The Facebook feature praised in the article is also a way of manipulating users:
after any sort of disaster, they are under pressure to be used by Facebook because not doing so would suggest they were among the casualties.

More about the Haitian election and how it relates to the US history of keeping Haiti down.

Britain's previous Tory prime minister rebukes the current Tory government for the inequality it has created.

The US and Russia have agreed to ask the UN to broker a cease-fire between Assad and his enemies.

UK anti-privacy activists seek to use the Paris attacks as an excuse to skip debate about new mass surveillance powers.

Each terrorist attack, anywhere in the world, provides an excuse for Big Brother to say we should surrender more freedom so he can "protect" us. Aside from the danger of tyranny, which exceeds that of terrorists, it's not even clear that increased surveillance would achieve its goal.

There is no limit to how many people a tyrannical state can kill, torture, or imprison. We need a state, for the many essential things that states can do, but we must make sure it remains under our control, and we can't do that if it knows everywhere we go and everyone we talk with.

Prohibiting expression of opinions, "advocating" this or that, is a form of tyranny. When "extremism" is prohibited, will plutocrats declare rejection of plutocracy "extreme"? We be prosecuted for advocating a return to democracy?