[manjushri]

>FB had been in denial about the politics issue, I suspect they still don't fully grasp it. They're not a neutral platform.

They grasp it. They've been running research studies on elections[1], politics, and "emotional contagions"[2] since at least 2010.

[1]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-facebook...

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebo...