Before the election, social media platforms gave up

Our social media Platforms and governments have had four years to achieve this. Instead, they raised their hands.

In the days following January 6, Meta, Twitter, YouTube and Twitch suspended former president Donald Trump for posts that the companies said glorified the violence at the Capitol. It was the most extreme censorship decision these companies have ever made. The platforms also took sweeping actions to remove thousands of militia accounts, conspiracy theorists and the content they shared that brought America to that point.

But that didn’t last long.

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After the 2022 midterm elections, the balance of power has shifted in Congress. Republicans now have a majority – albeit a small one – in the House of Representatives and are using that sliver of power to go after the researchers and safety and trust officers who did the work Vertigo is debunking election myths. Jim Jordan was appointed chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee and immediately launched investigations aimed at disrupting the work of scholars and, at worst, launching harassment campaigns against the entire censorship group. As a result of these attacks, the Stanford Internet Observatory, one of the leading disinformation research groups, permanently closed during the summer.

Now, much of the social media infrastructure built to protect our democratic system in the months and days after deadly riots collapsed — through inattention or force. Election Day is just five days away and a chasm has formed in what little ground remains.

To start with what we all know: Elon Musk takes over Twitter And turn it into Xa conspiracy wasteland where professional purveyors of disinformation make thousands of dollars peddling lies. Musk reinstated the accounts of Alex Jones and Andrew Tate, who were both banned years before the 2020 election cycle began. And to bring us to present day, Musk has spent the last few weeks campaigning for Trump and spreading election lies.

Cracks in this foundation have occurred everywhere. Last year, Alphabet, Meta, and Meta didn’t just turn a blind eye to the militia Currently organization on its basis, that is automatically created militia-related groups.