Facebook was born, lives and thrives in scandal. It’s been lawless for years | Matt Stoller

We've known that Facebook is lawless and reckless for years. But lawlessness pays - so don't expect it to change

Facebook is having a rough go of it these days, so you might expect the company to be in trouble. For instance, at one Senate judiciary hearing, the Republican senator John Kennedy of Louisiana let Facebook's Colin Stretch have it.

Kennedy confronted Stretch, the company's former general counsel, with a report that Facebook can micro-target emotionally vulnerable teens, asking: Was that reporting wrong?" Stretch responded with a standard Facebook line: That reporting relied on an internal document that was overstated." It didn't satisfy Kennedy. Your power sometimes scares me," he said. Another day, another PR black eye for Facebook.