Interesting NYT piece by Kevin Roose in which he points out that the key question about regulating Facebook is not that lawmakers know very little about how it works, but whether they have the political will to regulate it. My hunch is that they don’t, but if they did then the first thing to do would be fix on some clear ideas about what’s wrong with the company.

Here’s the list of possibilities cited by Roose:

• Is it that Facebook is too cavalier about sharing user data with outside organizations?
• Is it that Facebook collects too much data about users in the first place?
• Is it that Facebook is promoting addictive messaging products to children?
• Is it that Facebook’s news feed is polarizing society, pushing people to ideological fringes?
• Is it that Facebook is too easy for political operatives to exploit, or that it does not do enough to keep false news and hate speech off users’ feeds?
• Is it that Facebook is simply too big, or a monopoly that needs to be broken up?

How about: all of the above?