Zuckerburg has political ambitions, a little help from the Facebook moderation team might earn him a few favors. He certainly wants that infrastructure in place once he runs.
Easier to sell ads if users don't have to deal with differing opinions. Arguments are hard to avoid and disrupt the casual consumption experience.
Conservative voters probably represent a much smaller portion of facebook's user base than liberal voters, given facebook's age demographics.
There is definitely an assymetry in what kind of hard-line political pages are likely to get banned. They have relaxed a bit in the last few months, but many political pages constantly have to worry about "getting zucced".
I come from significant privilege, so I won't be hurt by people dividing (and fighting among) themselves by ambiguous lines drawn in the sand. But, I don't understand how so many people that don't come from such a background think of globalism as a bad thing.
Because Globalism means the extremely poor elsewhere in the world get less poor, while the relatively rich in the US get relatively less rich, and also the extremely rich in the US and elsewhere get more rich. This does not jive with a lot of people.
Observation shows the first part is promised but does not happen. All the money goes in one pocket, and as a hint to which, its not the lower or middle classes of any country.
The marketing campaign will be against murderers, the implementation will be against people who voted for Trump.