I just wrote a comment on FB about how I want to see some focus on US Oligarchs in US political discussion.

Almost all of the discussions of Putin cite and feature a flowing stream of Russian Oligarchs and pearl clutching descriptions of the seedy Russian oligarch circuit.

We do have Matt Taibbi, who just wrote a smoking piece about FB; pulling few punches and laying it bare:

It's a seismic change. As recently as November 2016, Zuckerberg, who exudes all the warmth of a talking parking meter, could be heard lashing out at people who "insist we call ourselves a news or media company." He later scoffed at the idea his firm played a significant role in the election, and refused to discuss the possibility that Facebook had responsibility for reversing the declining quality of news reporting.

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Now, he claims, Facebook is just trying to do the right thing. "We take our responsibilities seriously," he says, explaining the thinking behind the new initiatives. "In a world where the Internet exists, how can we make the world better?"

Facebook's decision to accept "responsibilities" in the news realm, even in this rudimentary and characteristically disingenuous way, has mind-blowing implications for a country that has functioned without a true media regulator for most of its history.

That's because all of these horror-movie headlines about fake news and "meddling" gloss over the giant preceding catastrophe implicit in all of these tales. For Facebook to be both the cause of and the solution to so many informational ills, the design mechanism built into our democracy to prevent such problems – a free press – had to have been severely disabled well before we got here.

We have to identify and point at our oligarchs to call them to account if we want to over throw them. The burying of Bernie and continued corporate sponsored political realignment has continued, and quickened even, despite hitting the wall of our new Drumpfian reality.

The legal bullet points of the piece reads like the poor corporations were abused by government. That's not really how it works here in the US, and I can probably pull up a list of these poor abused corporations by a US official's abuse of domestic power.

I want to see the puppeteers get some sunlight. It's really the only way we can come to a proper decision on what train we're on, where we're going, and what we're facing in the future. Leaving the oligarchs out of the equation is to completely misread the situation and have completely inaccurate situational awareness (here we sit).