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While data security is an issue Facebook must reckon with, it is not the major issue Facebook's existence poses to democracies around the world.

The real issue in my mind is that the platform can be used by bad actors to spread misinformation. It's as if during WWII the Nazi's had the ability to publish editorials in leading newspapers throughout the US.

While this is a feature/bug of the internet in general, the vast scale of Facebook and its near ubiquitous use amongst the general voting public in the US and other democratic nations make it the most potent vector through which a bad actor like Russia could spread propaganda and misinformation.

I'm not sure the recent move to label political advertisements as such will do much to safeguard us from misinformation.