I don't think so. It just underlines the title of the book "Careless People".

Facebook doesn't care about anything, takes no responsibility, "can't be touched", be it on their home turf or across the globe.

I think the comparison is not meant to be between degrees of horribleness between the two events, but between degrees of complicity and denial on the part of Facebook management.

Complicity in what, exactly? Democracy? Personally I'm less concerned about Facebook staying neutral in 2016 and more concerned about their election sabotage in 2020:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3616579-zuckerberg-tel...

Of course in the end things turned out for the best, but that's almost certainly not what Sheryl wanted, so I guess it's on theme for the book.

> Complicity in what

The massacres in Myanmar and in the propagation of misinformation relating to the elections in the US in 2020, and probably 2024[1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46590890

US nationals being subject to arbitrary detention by ICE, with the plan to deport them to irretrievable offshore prisons, is probably not the best.

Big if true. Meanwhile, most are pleased with the bans on men in women's sports and DoD doctors sterilizing children, among other executive actions.

I'm not following, which things turned out for the best?

The 2024 general election.

The comparison is that there are two events that Facebook couldn't mentally or emotionally acknowledge their involvement in even though they were clearly involved and had influenced, not that there is moral equivalence between the two events.