My strong suspicion is that the general plan is essentially: - let a whistleblower (who seems intent on describing Facebook employees as smart and humanistic f

My strong suspicion is that the general plan is essentially: - let a whistleblower (who seems intent on describing Facebook employees as smart and humanistic folks, despite those employees designing and maintaining FBs content delivery systems) make a case that Facebook needs government regulation. - agree that such a regulatory agency should be created, and offer FBs assistance in outlining the parameters involved — because who better than the problem to design the solution? - agency is created. Perhaps the whistleblower can even be a high level figure within it, as the face of the issue. - Suddenly FB is no longer liable for anything because they are “adhering to government regulation”. - Regulatory capture ensues as expected. FOR FB this is preferable to thr other options: 1. Calls for FB to be broken up 2. Regulation that FB doesn’t have a primary role in designing.