Which is why I much prefer Reddit than Facebook. Content is curated by each community and not some corporation. There is a "hot" algorithm but you are free to switch to "top", "new", etc, if it doesn't work for you.
This is only a feature of hyper-centralized news curation systems. Once we figure out the issues of moderation and allowing illegal content to be purged while preventing purging of legal content, and someone figures out a way to get a bandwagon going, it will hopefully no longer be necessary for a news curation platform to have to "play ball".
LOL - Reddit has been caught literally editing the content. They then play the "community powered" card when in reality the mods are groomed and selected for major sub-reddits.
The level of total control is the same - the mechanisms are different. Nothing else.