US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confessed to not being a big fan of Facebook, and touched on this in comments she made on Friday.
Pelosi's way of articulating her dislike of the company, however, is quite interesting, even for a politician: "I don't know what they have been doing, but I know they've been part of the problem all along."
This prominent Democrat managed to confess to both being ignorant of what's going on in one of the world's most influential and powerful entities - Facebook - and also, that not knowing the facts doesn't stop her from "knowing" that somebody else is in the wrong.
As usual, Pelosi was not going after Facebook here because of what's actually wrong with it - and that bears repeating, because not many people do it: it's mass collection and monetization of users' personal information, and Facebook's role in manipulating public conversation and in the digital ad market duopoly it shares with Google.
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