In your ideal case, lets say that Facebook identifies some content that it believes is spreading false information about somebody. Should Facebook be allowed to

In your ideal case, lets say that Facebook identifies some content that it believes is spreading false information about somebody. Should Facebook be allowed to remove it? If no: Facebook is being fined for not taking an action that it is not allowed to take, which I can't imagine you are advocating for. If yes: Facebook is now the arbiter of what information gets to be seen (on Facebook), which you didn't want. A third option, of course, would be to let the government (all governments?) decide when something should be removed from Facebook, but frankly I think this is the worst option of the three. I suspect that you meant liability in cases when something is "clearly" untrue, so my comments likely come off as pedantry. In cases like this video it's very easy to make that determination. But when it isn't so clear cut, there will have to be judgement calls, and if we're talking actual liability then someone has to be empowered make them. Who gets to make these judgement calls? Either Facebook, the US Government, any government including the ones that you don't like, or maybe some supposedly non-biased third party. None of these options sound at all good to me. I don't know what the answer is, I just want to point out that whatever it is, if it even exists, it isn't as simple as that.