Oh please. This “whistleblower” stunt is so obviously coordinated anyone who falls for it is a fool. Is it really pure coincidence that facebook released ads demanding for more internet regulation and censorship while a “whistleblower” goes on TV saying facebook needs to do more censorship, followed up with the democrats demanding something be done to make facebook censor what they don’t like. Yeah. Sure.
There's a really tricky legal dance going on here. The government cannot directly censor Facebook, and Facebook knows that. The government, knowing it can't directly censor Facebook, instead tries to pressure/threaten Facebook to censor itself.
Facebook responds by playing innocent and saying "you know, we'd really rather you just set the rules for us so they're "fair" (and so we don't piss off our members), knowing full well that the government cannot do exactly what Facebook is asking it to do.
Facebook sucks, but I actually think they're playing this decently. It would be much worse for us if Facebook just did all the censorship on its own, because it would be harder to challenge legally. "Asking" the government to censor them is a convoluted legal way of telling the government to F.O..