Kind of a stunning admission IMO. That Joel Kaplan advised against Facebook cracking down on misinformation hard in the aftermath of the fake news being peddled in 2016 because conservatives didn't believe that their fake news is fake news and that they would scream bloody murder if the Facebook pages peddling fake news were taken down.
“Facebook does not speak Republican,” a former employee of Facebook’s Integrity Team told the paper. “This is what they know about Republicans: Tell them ‘yes’ or they will hurt us.”
Non-paywalled version for those who are curious.