Gosh, the tone of the discussion here is such that folks... act like politicians lying is in fact a good thing and it was bad of Facebook to even imagine they c

Gosh, the tone of the discussion here is such that folks... act like politicians lying is in fact a good thing and it was bad of Facebook to even imagine they could stop it? It's weird go me because the vector of this speech is advertising, and in fact there are rather unobjectionable laws about false advertising. Why is political speech somehow different in folk's mind? It doesn't really matter though, because what this story is very good at highlighting is that Facebook is essentially a machine to let rich interests have historically unprecedented insight into your interests and control over what you see. The more they do things like this, the easier it is to argue that there is no safe audience for facebook and everyone should leave it.