Google ended moderation of 2020 election lies on YouTube.
Facebook/Instagram restored Trump's deceitful, violence-promoting accounts.
Spotify stopped pretending to exercise editorial oversight over the increasingly vile Joe Rogan.
And of course, Twitter is now run by a right-wing extremist who uses the platform to promote right-wing extremism.
This is the social-media trendline as we head into an election that will decide the fate of democracy.
Dan Gillmor /
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2023-06-18 23:16:44
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