Fakebook were heading for a correction.

When they insisted they were not publishers they set the seeds of this.

They are publishers. And they sold data. You could have predicted where it was going. I never thought of the political dimension, I had commerce as (mis)using it, on my brain. & me, I always refer to politicians as selling themselves and still didn't join the dots. Those dots are firmly joined now.

And as for Russian involvement - well! Who'd-a-thought-it?