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A comment on Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims. Parent comment

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by manigandham on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:27PM (#24804128)
Social networks are specifically not publishers. They do not have editorial control over the content of their users.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by SECProto on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:51PM (#24811745)
They work under that exemption, but by having an algorithm that preferentially shows certain material to each user, they are exercising editorial control. Worse, the editorial control is a black box from the outside.
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