The tide seems to be turning against Facebook. What's interesting here isn't so much the story as who it's coming from (CNN).

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/22/opinions/facebook-is-the-nerd-turned-bully-ball-opinion-intl/index.html

The real story is that Facebook's attempts to become more of an explicitly political actor have been hitting the fan. Zuck's tour of the US, which everyone thought was the beginning of a presidential bid, was probably the start of his attempt to understand the political landscape. He realized that Facebook couldn't stay out of politics and was trying to get more of a handle on it, outside of his usual bubble.

If you have a few billion people in the walled garden and you're making content decisions about what they see then this is always going to have an inescapable political dimension. You can claim to be "apolitical" and just following some censorship decision tree, but at some point that becomes no longer credible.