I like Matt Taibbi's writing but this piece is unusually naive by his standards. The whole 'clamp down on fake news, Russian trolls and Nazis' schtick is just a

I like Matt Taibbi's writing but this piece is unusually naive by his standards. The whole 'clamp down on fake news, Russian trolls and Nazis' schtick is just an excuse to limit free speech, which FB have every right to do in their walled garden. It's v unclear to me what FB is actually for these days. It's clearly not a high school yearbook style 'facebook' any more. The closed groups are AOL redux and the whole 'newsfeed' thing is a mess. My more paranoid side suspects it will be sunseted soon as a newer, more sophisticated surveillance system becomes ready. A Yahoo style security breach will flush everybody off FB and onto a shiny platform with exciting new bells and whistles...