>If a Less than a million dollars of Facebook ads shown to a few thousand people can determine who becomes president in the US, then there is a much bigger problem.

Do we know that that’s all that happened? Or is this just the tip of the ice berg.

>Anything short of of making these tools available to everyone would position Facebook as an agent/agency of the US Government.

Facebook is an American company. So is Apple and Google. Even if they are not legally bound to serve the interests of the country, their employees are overwhelmingly American and probably patriotic and so we have to expect that when push comes to shove the interests of the US will come first.