Zack Beauchamp, in Vox: This is important no matter what, but you’re reading this in The Verge so here’s a tech angle: the big social platforms are facing a 2024 content-moderation nightmare. Emboldened by Elon Musk’s teardown of Twitter, they all want to pull back on moderation costs in various ways, but this election cycle will feature some of the most heated and dangerous rhetoric from a major party candidate any of us have ever experienced. It’s going to be incredibly messy all around.
Zack Beauchamp, a Vox senior correspondent who writes about democracy and Israel, speaks with Shadi Hamid, a columnist at The Washington Post, research…