«We're too used to talking about Facebook a certain way: that it (and Zuckerberg) is naively allowing the far right to prevail there because it is obsessed with "engagement", sentiment graphing, and all the other measures of our minds it can sell to advertisers. Sometimes this is further identified with a vaguely-liberal techie libertarianism in which free speech is the paramount virtue. This might be taken in good faith, or as an ideological cover for encouraging people to throw in more data to wring money from.«But we have to consider that Facebook's cultivation of these audiences is intentional, simply because a Democratic congress and president would present a more potent threat to Facebook than Trump and his cronified GOP ever will.»
