The article makes it seem like people at Facebook have ideas on how to potentially thread the needle, but Zuckerberg (and probably a handful of other senior exe

The article makes it seem like people at Facebook have ideas on how to potentially thread the needle, but Zuckerberg (and probably a handful of other senior executives) keep putting the kibosh on it. We know there are some people with pretty idiosyncratic political beliefs and unsavory connections on Facebook's board and within its senior executive leadership. It's not hard to imagine that maybe they like it being an engine for stoking outrage and perpetuating disinformation for reasons unrelated to the financials or for any intelligible design/engineering logic. It doesn't even necessarily have to be malicious. They could literally just be blinkered by a weird ideological belief in "absolute" free-speech.