in my mind, the facebook policy is limited in ways that mitigate the problems you present. the "hands off" policy (as I understand it) only applies to elected o

in my mind, the facebook policy is limited in ways that mitigate the problems you present. the "hands off" policy (as I understand it) only applies to elected officials, meaning there is some level of inherent accountability (in significant part due to legal requirements to disclose the source of campaign ads), and a built-in limit to how 'fringe' the information will be (since an elected official, having been elected, has some amount of public support). A relatively small number of actors with established political support, who are generally under high levels of scrutiny and accountability for the things they say, ads they run, etc., are subject to the policy, not everyone.