>FB had been in denial about the politics issue, I suspect they still don't fully grasp it. They're not a neutral platform. They grasp it. They've been running

>FB had been in denial about the politics issue, I suspect they still don't fully grasp it. They're not a neutral platform. They grasp it. They've been running research studies on elections[1], politics, and "emotional contagions"[2] since at least 2010. [1]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-facebook-experiment-increased-real-world-election-turnout-33547221/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-facebook... [2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-user-news-feeds-to-create-emotional-contagion/#3bf9104239dc https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebo...