The most damning thing about Facebook letting Trump openly lie on their platform is that the dollar amounts are *so small*. Like, enabling fascism is horrible, but enabling fascism for small dollars is embarrassing on top of evil.
Here's a preview of Zuckerberg's speech today: "We have to enable fascists to lie on Facebook not because of the small amount of money it makes, but because who are we to say what's true?" This is a stupid argument on its face, but *also* it ignores a better option...
Facebook could simply not allow *any* paid political advertising on its platform. Eliminate the category, proudly proclaim how you're trying to reduce the pernicious effect of money on politics, and reap the benefits. Wouldn't even affect earnings in any material way.
Media coverage will accept Zuckerberg’s bullshit framing (informed as it is by avowed Republican operatives who shape Facebook’s policies in these regards) and the fact that there are other, better options will get ignored.
This is the core lie of Zuck’s statement, an intentionally intellectually dishonest framing that allows him to maximize profitability while avoiding accountability. 
It is *not* giving more people a voice to allow white supremacists to pay to promote their message on Facebook. It is giving *fewer* people a voice. And stopping voter disenfranchisement is only a “political outcome” if we believe voter suppression is a legitimate political goal.
You get a cheaper price for distribution of your speech on Facebook if you post the kind of inflammatory lies that drive “engagement”. To justify a corporate subsidy of incitements to hate by evoking King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail is reprehensible, and inexcusable.
For context on who’s coordinating this:
