> We’ve been screwing with elections South of our border for generations now we’ve de facto privatized it! I think it's very interesting to think of Facebook i

> We’ve been screwing with elections South of our border for generations now we’ve de facto privatized it! I think it's very interesting to think of Facebook in that context. However, it was privatized long ago. Companies have been buying political influence for a long time, and when that hasn't worked, U.S. security forces sometimes have been deployed. I don't know about private security forces, but I'd be surprised if that didn't play some part. Facebook effectively plays the role of the private security agency; they provide an election manipulation service that others can utilize. It's different because those private armies exist solely for that purpose, but let's not pretend that Facebook learned about all these things in the last month - they knew what was going on better than anyone.