Did The Obama Administration "Control" Social Media Like The Trump Administration Does Now?

Just left a conversation with a republican in my office where I shared I would be leaving Facebook and am concerned that the US gov't now has the major social media players in their back pocket. The response I got was, "the same thing happened during the Obama administration."

I'm sorry - what? I can't find any meaningful evidence this was the case, of course.

I feel like republicans/conservatives take any real facts shown to them and just point back and say, "nuh uh, you did it, too!" as a regular defense. It's so reflexive I'm not even sure they know they do it.