I see discussions of veracity of social media as a channel for staying informed orthogonal to our discussion of politically motivated censorship. Whatever that assigned value of social media may be, what was done to suppress legitimate New York Post reporting based on manufactured pretext severely undermined that value. As a society, we are worse-off as the result.

Undeniably, the main value of social media is as a method of interpersonal communication. This undeniably translates to power over people. Power without any kind of accountability. I see unelected technocrats meddling in elections as a crisis of democracy and find your attempts to dismiss this as a serious issue unconvincing.

Think of it this way. Imagine an alternative reality where Silicon Valley somewhere in Texas, with HQ predominantly staffed by conservatives. Now imagine if this alternative universe social media suppressed "Grab Them By The Pussy" story, smearing it as "having hallmarks of a foreign disinformation". Would you be nonchalant about that as well?

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