Modern "platforms" sponsor content and push what they want, much like magazines and TV outlets. So social media as we know it is kind of a new development in technology that needs to be addressed properly.
> Modern "platforms" sponsor content and push what they want, much like magazines and TV outlets.
They aren't magazines or TV, where everything is under editorial control.
Not to mention, that magazines and TV outlets are also typically not liable when information in ads or third parties(such as pundits) is litigated against.
Social media using tens of thousands of moderators and AI to enforce extralegal policies about content sure sounds like editorial control to me. They an easily be viewed as employing content producers. Discriminating against content they don't like and promoting content that they do like (especially against user and producer preferences) is an act of editorializing. It doesn't matter to me how they justify that to themselves. Social media should be a utility, not a social engineering psyop working for government and industry "elites"...
