This Facebook team helps regimes that reach out and crack down

Illuminated signage is displayed at the Facebook Inc. Hack Station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. The Facebook Hack Station is the first of the company's innovation centers in the world offering coding classes, entrepreneurship workshops, career guidance, and workspace for startups of social impact. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube are poised to play outsized roles in the first presidential race since new rules put an end to corporate campaign donations, forcing possible candidates to seek cheaper and more effective ways of reaching voters. Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg

Under fire for Facebook Inc’s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship. 

“We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas,” Zuckerberg wrote in September after President Donald Trump accused Facebook of bias.