These results are easily explained by an algorithm that wants to optimize for click-throughs:
When people search for Trump, they seldom/never choose a Biden link.
When people search for Biden, they sometimes/often will click on a Trump link.

Why would Instagram waste browser real estate displaying choices that nobody picks?
Biden searchers themselves are shaping these results.

...and more expensively. They are short on everything and substitutions galore. Honestly, who would think walnuts are a suitable substitute for pecans?

In most truly democratic countries, the medical system is recording every death where the patient tested positive for CV-19 as a CV-19 death - even when the patient was previously suffering from a terminal or life-threatening condition. While technically true- a life was cut short by CV - it converts deaths that would have happened anyway into CV death. This is very different from situation where CV was the only reason the person died.

China (and other totalitarian countries) is probably doing the opposite - classifying any death that could have a cause other than CV as non-CV. That could substantially reduce reported death rates.

After this is all over I suspect we well see dips (in democratic countries) and rises (in totalitarian ones) of the mortality rates of common diseases during the pandemic. We'll have to look at the difference from statistical death rates to know the actual impact.

"We haven't actually observed many of these at all." : This is a purely theoretical particle that has never been observed but I want to imply that it's real.

The Coronavirus outbreak is going to turn into a historical nothing-burger.

(probably neither)

But since the DoD isn't selling services to the mobile market, most of the advantages you mention mean exactly squat to them.

I'm sure they could develop a Killer App if necessary - it's what they do, after all.

for what he did to HP.

it's a killer.

Sweetened or unsweetened, drinking a half-liter or more of Carbonic acid everyday, for years, might have adverse effects.

Obligatory. Bottom right-hand corner. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mo...

when they all start needing maintenance / replacement, the providers will declare bankruptcy, walk away and let the public fund the cleanup.

It's not even apples and oranges. The technology companies she's comparing Facebook to are tech-tech, they produce hardware and software.
Facebook is a "tech" company in the same way as broadcast media is a tech company. They both use hardware and software to make and distribute their product but the products aren't "tech" (or even software).

We need to stop referring to social media as "tech", it's media.

Over 33 million votes were cast in the original referendum - 51.9% Yea / 48.1% Nay.
If all it takes to invalidate a national referendum is that 20% of the Nay voters sign an online petition, then who controls the society?

They are a business expense and are passed directly to the consumer of their goods and/or services.
So actually, you pay their taxes.