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    DON’T TRY TO FIX BIG TECH WITH POLITICS

    May 20, 2021 4 minutes
    KATHERINE MANGU-WARD

    I DON’T KNOW the correct level of content moderation by Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Amazon. And neither do you.

    Sometimes I can pinpoint what looks to me like an obvious misstep: Facebook’s decision to block a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election, for instance, or Amazon’s refusal to carry a small number of books about trans issues without adequately explaining its decision. Tweets containing threats of violence left up indefinitely while mere tasteless jokes get swiftly removed.

    But I also know deciding what and whom to allow on your platform is a hard problem. Scale is hard: I know I’m

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