They are probably utterly incapable of doing so effectively. In truth they would probably have to contract out to another player to effectively provide a govern

They are probably utterly incapable of doing so effectively. In truth they would probably have to contract out to another player to effectively provide a government sponsored Facebook at a cost of billions of dollars per year. Anything you posted on facebook.gov would be instantly available to advertisers AND the government so a huge segment of the population would refuse to use it especially young people. It would probably end up with a mixture of a minority of socially minded people and people so odious they would be censored anywhere else. See the kind of folks you have on the conservative reddit clone. As soon as people conspiring on facebook.gov are guilty of something really terrible like say a mass shooting there will be calls to implement some sort of additional content controls and we now have 2 facebooks one paid for by ads another by our tax money.