Do you trust them to break up all the alternate reality bubbles, or just the ones they don't like?
What's truly dangerous here is that one organization has so much control over what news people see.
What's truly dangerous here is that one organization has so much control over what news people see.
The problem is we don't have multiple major news organizations per major area like we used to. Back then there was bias, but it was easier to be called out on it. Now I think many people are fine living in the bubble.
I can't see a scenario where Facebook manages to avoid anti-trust action against it in the next four to six years, both in Europe and the US.
Ultimately the only way to really address this problem is to have a diverse variety of competing news sources so at least they aren't all captured in the same way at the same time. There's no way to line this up with Facebook being the One News Source, any more than if it was the government doing it.