Facebook intentionally revealed that a small amount of money was spent by one firm via its ads platform. In reality it is the news feed behavior that was explo

Facebook intentionally revealed that a small amount of money was spent by one firm via its ads platform. In reality it is the news feed behavior that was exploited. Facebook can "fix" the ads platform by adding a bit more human vetting, but unless the behavior of the news feed is changed specifically to censor political content deemed objectionable by Facebook, the same basic PR strategy will work in the next election. So we have to decide whether broad censorship over social media is what we really want. There is also too much emphasis being placed on the foreignness of the ad-buyers. It's just as likely that in the next election some domestic entity will sponsor similar ads, since any foreign interests will have had time to establish domestic branches run by American citizens. So we must ask again, do we really want censorship? The solution, I think, is to allow the marketplace of ideas to function, and for all of us to make the extra effort needed to hold informed, reasoned opinions and to resist tribalism and the good guys vs bad guys mentality that plagues politics and political debate.