If yellow journalism can stampede a nation into war (e.g. "Remember the Maine") through presenting a slanted view of the situation, well, Facebook and however it chooses to editorialize what it allows to be presented to its users has a vastly bigger audience than the newspapers of old. There's nothing "absurd" about that.
If future, as social media gets more powerful, they will be able to determine who gets elected. No-one will be able to get elected if they go against them.
Once that happens, Google and Facebook will never have to pay their share of taxes ever again!
