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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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[–] Monomate@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Moral of the story: it only took one social media site to start being more lax on cersorship for the other ones to follow suit. Maybe this is indicative that spending a lot of money on censorship measures is useless.