Thank you Mark Kingwell. More of this please Globe. Fun and incisive article. Tech seriously lacks social accountability. Tech giants like Facebook and YouTube make huge amounts of money on our information and content and sell access to our information, but currently have no responsibilities for it's privacy and the quality of information like newspapers.  Thus fake news and massive targeted lies. How can this be? Facebook uses the Napster defense "we are just a platform " or a "device". Napster  got sued into the ground by violating copyright.  How is it that they can facilitate spreading child pornography and not be held accountable? Or disseminate targeted lies to people's  " news"feeds to distort elections for rubles,  such as what happened in US election,  but then pretend they don't know or can't do anything? 
There needs to be serious legislation on this. Tech companies cannot be trusted to do the right thing when money is involved. Transparency as a response is pathetic.