I feel like Facebook needs to be held responsible for some sort of failure to supervise. It’s like selling handguns to toddlers, you know you’re going the wrong thing, even if they can pony up the cash.
In other words: We don’t want to spend a penny on human capital screening ads that could be part of a cyber war against the government. Free Speech!
Petulant brats.
Facebook is media whether they admit it or not. If they don’t want to screen ads and put disclosure on the bottom of who is responsible for the ad than don’t take political ads.
A $300 Billion company can well afford to get some more humans involved.
I hate FB. It is a fiendish time suck. As if I don’t have enough techno crap in my life. It reminds me of the fad of “scrap booking”. I didn’t understand that either. But FB being used in such a Manchurian Candidate kind of way, well, that IS diabolical!
Requiring the company to pre-screen any category of advertisement would necessitate a major increase in human staff…
Oh, dear… hiring humans? That is so 2016.
Want to post a picture of a bug-eyed monster to a sci-fi group on Facebook? You’ll need a human moderator’s approval.
Want to buy Facebook ads to get a Russian agent elected? No problem! Just fill out this automated form!
And America suffered its end by a death of 1 billion Likes. 
I hated scrap booking, I could never get them to close right when I glued my Jello mold and poodle skirt to the page.
I’m not sure what “stolen” means here. The images may have been reproduced without permission, but unless Facebook is admitting they were hacked, presumably anyone could have co-opted and used them for any purpose without the original posters’ knowledge. And maybe that’s what Facebook fears the most: that its users begin to recognize how much control over their private space they’re actually relinquishing using Facebook.
So Republican Facebook users want to take up arms to battle the terrible American government that can’t seem to defeat people living in a desert…
But have no problem with Trump helping Russians to spy on their Facebook activity.
Weird. The Republican Congress has lost its mind.
I keep encouraging everyone to delete their FB account if they have one. That’s one way to hold them accountable:
I deleted my account after the election and have to say I am happier because of it.
Can’t we all just agree that Mark Zuckerberg is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life?
Sorry. NO! 
Interesting about the fake photos. Another angle - a close friend (a lifelong CA Democrat with a lot of public FB posts) was routinely getting “friend” requests from total strangers who all had “American” sounding names but to a man looked like creepy Russian thugs, limo drivers, bodyguards. She deleted two or three of these per day. I wonder if this was a mechanism to send political ads and postings to folks who don’t take other sorts of bait, or (given how bad a fit the optics were for every last such request) just sour them on social media.
LOL! I saw what you did there! Don’t forget to flip over the Queen of Diamonds!
The same thing happened to me on both Facebook and Twitter, except mine were all booty-poppin’ profile pics of scantily clad women with a rotating series of the same five surnames. As a gay man, however, they were totally missing their target.f
Exactly- we would not want to take our billions in profits and share it with other human beings