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Dan Gillmor Jun 7, 2023

A particularly good @caseynewton commentary on how social media companies, which once pretended to care about their role in helping spread misinformation -- and do something to lessen the problem -- have now become allies of the people who want to bring down our democracy.

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-platforms-give-up-on-2020-lies

The platforms give up on 2020 lies

For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more

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Voron

@caseynewton @dangillmor really it just all comes down to the country forgetting why we use to tax the hell out of the rich & use to have safeguards on the power of private capital or as FDR called them “Economic Royalists”