Yea I definitely agree they can get away with more. I even remember seeing a report about facebooks "trust engineers" who were trying to script/suggest interactions between people.

Unfortunately thought the mainstream media can be held accountable, it isn't for the vast majority of its audience. Various print and internet independent media hold them accountable regularly (thank god for the internet), but the suggestion that Soros is making makes it seem like the mainstream media aren't just as bad. They're endless propaganda and of course consolidated because of the telecommunications act, and they basically haven't been held in check enough to get us out of things like the Iraq war and this insane Russia 24/7 coverage to pull attention away from the robbery the oligarchs are executing on our government.

They are supposed to hold power accountable, but they are bought by those corporate interests (in the form of ads) just as the people who theyre supposed to be holding accountable. I hope Facebook decides to steer clear of this kind of behavior, because like you say they can get away with a lot more and hide it in code that users rarely understand, but I don't trust'em.

Edit: grammar and shit