I think that for anyone paying attention, Facebook has been a continual shitshow since inception. The idea that they will ever learn to have a sense of civic responsibility towards their general userbase is simply delusional, for the simple reason that to do so goes utterly against Facebook's entire core business model. It is the 'punter model' of doing business with customer as puppet/adversary and it is also the main moral failing at the center of Google. The fact that there is a recent pile on by the media might be that there is some nefarious competitor stirring up trouble. Or it might be that they have woken up and decided to do their jobs for once and this seems unusual.
