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Ahead of Inauguration Day, tech platforms display a new willingness to take action against accounts spreading misinformation or advocating violence.

Ahead of Inauguration Day, tech platforms display a new willingness to take action against accounts spreading misinformation or advocating violence.

Were used to this kind of editorial decision when it comes from television or print news. These outlets make choices every day about what to cover, who to interview, who to publish in their op-ed sections, and who to invite as talking heads. They even decide when to air video messages from the president and how to contextualize them. If this decision-making seems strange to us in the context of social media, its partly because platforms have spent the last 10-plus years telling us that they ar...

The storming of the US Capitol by an angry mob and subsequent dismantling of President Trump's social media machine represents a ""tipping point"" for the regulation of online platforms, experts say.

The storming of the US Capitol by an angry mob and subsequent dismantling of President Trump's social media machine represents a "tipping point" for the regulation of online platforms, experts say.