Answering my own question above, FB is an international platform - probably one of the cheaper, easier ways for US based polluters/bad actors to do both international and domestic PR messaging. And it seems slippery as an eel here in the US - where we so far treat it as a harmless entertainment rather than a public citizen with the same responsibility as other publishers. (In this regard it seems some members of the EU are ahead of the US.)
Still, I’m highly uncomfortable with the suggestion (made above) of jailing American “reporters” for passing on/creating bad information. - Democracy really does depend on its Fourth Estate (journalism) and I strongly support our First Amendment, though can see the need for it to give way when so called “reporters” slop over into “content creators” and/or flak (PR people), in the pockets of/themselves profiteers at the expense of/with reckless disregard for the best interests of our planet and of its poor, young, old and disabled. Quite possibly this is a problem best handled by an international court, but oops we don’t believe in international criminal courts do we?
Fascinating that pols/lobbyists are using FB as advertising platform for anti-climate, corporate irresponsibility messaging. Why is that?
Answering my own question above, FB is an international platform - probably one of the cheaper, easier ways for US based polluters/bad actors to do both international and domestic PR messaging. And it seems slippery as an eel here in the US - where we so far treat it as a harmless entertainment rather than a public citizen with the same responsibility as other publishers. (In this regard it seems some members of the EU are ahead of the US.)
Still, I’m highly uncomfortable with the suggestion (made above) of jailing American “reporters” for passing on/creating bad information. - Democracy really does depend on its Fourth Estate (journalism) and I strongly support our First Amendment, though can see the need for it to give way when so called “reporters” slop over into “content creators” and/or flak (PR people), in the pockets of/themselves profiteers at the expense of/with reckless disregard for the best interests of our planet and of its poor, young, old and disabled. Quite possibly this is a problem best handled by an international court, but oops we don’t believe in international criminal courts do we?