In the UK at least we already have official petitions - the UK one is https://petition.parliament.uk/ https://petition.parliament.uk/ This is the ONLY one that

In the UK at least we already have official petitions - the UK one is https://petition.parliament.uk/ https://petition.parliament.uk/ This is the ONLY one that impels the UK government to debate, and ultimately vote on each petition (providing the petition has garnered enough signatures). However a LOT people in the UK use the change.org system, which has absolutely NO legal standing, and they get upset when the government ignores them. I can see this Facebook system being exactly the same. If Facebook REALLY cared about fair democracy, they'd just highlight and link to each countries existing online petition systems (if one exists) instead of building their own system. Of course they can't data mine the official petition systems can they...