[trhway]

and if that Russian company was an agent of Russian government ( 101 chances out of 100 that it was, i.e. any reasonable person would think so :) then FB doing that company's bidding was acting as an agent of Russian government, and doing so without registration as such a foreign government agent sounds to me (not a lawyer though) like a violation of another item of the federal law. At least it looks like doing such thing was a violation before the current administration - now they seem to accept "retroactive" registrations, at least from their own folks - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-trump-campaig...

[havetocharge]

You can take your assertions further -- every Russian, national or not, is an agent of the Russian government with 101% certainty at that. Furthermore, everyone who associates with Russians is an agent as well, with a reasonably high degree of confidence.