* Cambridge Analytica: A company accessed friends lists via an api and sold them to another company. Friends lists are pretty much public on every other service. Very low quality data. Happened years ago. Original company accessed the data legitimately via api.

* Soros: Billionaire investor in FB starts publicly bad mouthing FB. FB hires team to find out why. Non-story.

* This story (strategic use of data with various partners): Literally every company that sells data does this. Some shady user practices, yes, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Altogether these are pretty minor things but the media coverage would have you think FB is causing the world economy to collapse.

My theory is that this is happening for two reasons:

1. Old media business models continue to deteriorate. FB is the new gatekeeper so the old gatekeepers are attacking it.

2. Extreme left-wing political bias in major media companies is still looking for a scapegoat for the 2016 election results and trying to to stop platforms that can circumvent their narrative.

Again, FB has a lot wrong with it, but to not view this as a coordinated attack from a handful of centralized mainstream media players is to miss the real story here.