No, the newspaper or magazine has clear editorial. It&#x27;s very clear that this is what Fox News or The New York Times or Wall Street Journal is saying.<p>People think that Facebook is a place where their friends, and family post things. By extension, they think that Facebook trends are just &quot;what&#x27;s popular&quot; not, what Facebook as a company is saying or endorsing.<p>No one holds Facebook responsible for a topic that is trending. Actually, I take that back, a bunch of people do but, they are dismissed out of hand as idiots.<p>Facebook really doesn&#x27;t want to be in the publishing of ideas business. Their responsibility would be higher.<p>The air shouldn&#x27;t have an opinion on the sound traveling through it.<p>Facebook has the means to manipulate ideas at scale. They have researched it. We are just supposed to blindly trust them because of a vaguely worded Facebook post? A post where to respond, I have to log in and identify myself?<p>I mean, it&#x27;s hard to not to see this as Orwellian or just plain stupid. Other than choosing (and then doubling down on) PHP, I don&#x27;t see Facebook as run by stupid people.<p>Either they think this thing will just blow over and no one will care. This much trust in something that isn&#x27;t transparent is just bad for democracy. Facebook isn&#x27;t the TV station, it&#x27;s the airwaves. They have to be held to different standards.