This is a good move for both Thiel and Facebook. This helps Facebook with advertisers, the DC machinery still reeling from the Trump fallout, shareholders and

This is a good move for both Thiel and Facebook. This helps Facebook with advertisers, the DC machinery still reeling from the Trump fallout, shareholders and almost all their staff. They can wash their hands of what looks - to many - a toxic situation. This helps Thiel, because he's no longer going to have to explain himself - his writing game me the impression that he is somebody who despises having to explain himself to people who think he might be wrong - and allows him to carry on with his Trump project, unquestioned, unencumbered. From a certain perspective and distance this is all deeply depressing, though. They walk away from each other knowing all sides face fewer consequences for their terrible decisions, many of which have caused significant - perhaps irreparable - damage to the standing of United States politics and industry in the wider World.