I'll preface this by saying the articles are of excellent quality, obviously well researched and to me an exemplary piece of research and journalism.

With that being said, are we really supposed to be holding entities like Meta/Facebook accountable for the actions of governments? You can read through my comments here on HN and I'm sure you'll notice I'm not one to generally have nice or even neutral things to say about megacorp entities like Meta, but I just fail to see how any of this is really on them.

If it wasn't Facebook where misinfo was being spread, it would've been twitter, or mastodon, or whatever other social media platform. And even if there were no social media platforms, disinformation, propaganda and unfortunately even genocides have all been happening for a lot longer than Meta's been a thing, and I seriously doubt that the lack of channels like Facebook would've prevented or even changed anything.

Why are we suddenly deciding that Meta/Twitter/Google/Pick your poison are to be the arbiters and keepers of truth and justice?