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Since his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk has been releasing more and more information laying out how Twitter has censored speech, as well as the government’s role in that process. He recently emphasized that the censorship problem is by no means limited to Twitter.
“Every social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government,” Musk wrote on Twitter. “Google frequently makes links disappear, for example.”
Documents he revealed show government agencies sought to suppress information on elections, Ukraine, and the pandemic.
The truth is, there is likely a far worse problem at YouTube, owned by Google, and Facebook, than Twitter. Twitter had about 2,000 content moderators at the time Musk took it over. YouTube has about 10,000 and Facebook about 15,000. These employees in their twenties and thirties have the sole job of reading or watching posts and deciding if you should be allowed to see them….