One of the more worrisome aspects of the FB is how it was used by the Russian trolls to influence the presidential election. http://mashable.com/2017/03/30/rus

One of the more worrisome aspects of the FB is how it was used by the Russian trolls to influence the presidential election. http://mashable.com/2017/03/30/russian-trolls-fake-news/#LDbNXtOBvPqL http://mashable.com/2017/03/30/russian-trolls-fake-news/#LDb... It's not exactly Facebook that is doing it, it's that a set of smart external actors can use the data from fb advertising services to spread propaganda with unprecedented granularity. And to make it even scarier, there's no public record of what was shown to whom, and it can be run by smart actors in a completely anonymous fashion. I feel we have gotten to a point where there's a direct threat to the fundamental concept of a free democracy from the fb platform.