The good news is that with the death of the profit motive, machine learning applications will become less important for the operation of Facebook's core mechani

The good news is that with the death of the profit motive, machine learning applications will become less important for the operation of Facebook's core mechanisms. Yes, you are right about the government, but I think FB is being used by the government to get around the built-in legal protections. Moving it to the other side might make those tradeoffs more visible, but also more fair.