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Social media platforms have unprecedented power to determine who is heard and who is not. A growing body of documented cases suggests that power is being used in ways that go beyond content moderation.
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is 26 words long. Those 26 words have been used to shield platforms from accountability for decisions that affect billions of people.
NewsOnScale Staff
Platform suppression is designed to be deniable. No error message. No explanation. Just a quiet reduction in reach that is almost impossible to prove without the right documentation.
NewsOnScale Staff
Social media suppression gets covered. Email suppression does not. But the ability to silently block outbound email from specific senders is real, documented, and nearly impossible to detect.
NewsOnScale Staff