> Ah, so Facebook has no moral obligation to control posts on whether or not they are true - just on whether or not they get paid to show them? To sum it up li

> Ah, so Facebook has no moral obligation to control posts on whether or not they are true - just on whether or not they get paid to show them? To sum it up like that reduces both the enormity and complexity of the problem they are faced with. You say you get spammed with Trump ads; how many of those ads make claims that you could prove are irrevocably untrue? Politicians and people designing political ads are often experts at dancing in the "gray area" of truth. I don't think it is fair to deny the fact that Facebook takes this problem very seriously, certainly beyond what would be expected from them as far as business obligations go. (I'm even saying this as someone building a product that would compete with them.)