(04-03-2023, 01:12 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-03-2023, 12:02 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Until social media becomes a tool of bias and selective information, a la Twitter before Musk.

Social media is more dangerous than the MSM because it does not operate under the guise and expectation of truth. Trump was able to use it to bypass the filters of the MSM. He caught the left by surprise. Now they control popular social media with the same ardent sense of intolerance as practiced in the media. 

It’s an evolving technology which does allow access to information. However, there are no constitutional mandates which hold them to accountability. Since Trump, it has become much less a source of open information and dialogue.

Social media should be nothing more and nothing less than a framework for the user to see the latest from their friends, from brands and channels they've opted in to, and ads.  
As soon as a post is seen by say 1,000 or 10,000 people, either the platform (say Twitter) or the channel (say the Twitter account for CNN) has to accept and demonstrate insurance for monetary liability for the truth of the post.  Typically this will mean that if an average user like us has something start to go viral, the network will pump the brakes on it until they review it, and they won't make the time, and our post will never expand beyond that arbitrary limit.  So much fewer posts will go viral, and those that do will be in an expected pattern of bias.  "CNN leans left, Western journal leans right," etc.