This is basically the monopoly problem.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t that FB is slanted, but that FB has a near-monopoly on user attention, which allows its slant to be both covert and disproportionately influential.<p>If FB was one of a selection of companies competing in the same space, political bias would be less of an issue, because it would be more like the print magazine and blog space.<p>But then you have the problem that the US gov has an entire network of foundations, think-tanks, blogs, PR companies, astroturfers, bought-and-paid-for journalists, and other &quot;thought leaders&quot; who exist solely to present a specific agenda - usually a pro-corporate one.<p>In the same way that you can&#x27;t argue with the Fed, you can&#x27;t argue with a state-organised propaganda machine - not easily, anyway.<p>So the problem is much wider than FB.