I assumed the story would be a critical oversight of Facebook as a whole, from employees' perspective. There are fundamental issues with any social media platfo

I assumed the story would be a critical oversight of Facebook as a whole, from employees' perspective. There are fundamental issues with any social media platform these days that goes beyond this particular case of foreign intervention. How have filter bubbles changed our political landscape? How has the obsession for "likes" and "shares" incentivized certain speech over others? Has it diminished the variety of opinions? How do we create a platform that encourages people to step outside their comfort zone and learn things they may initially disagree with? How do we get people of differing opinions, who in our current world demonize each other, to sit down and share their stories and listen to? Is it even possible to build a popular platform that fights against our innate biases, like selection bias, confirmation bias, etc.? Be the alleged Russian involvement as it may, I think that the above questions are far more damaging to the long term political stability in this country.