Kate Klonick

I mean, like advertisers have been doing this forever.

Sure.

Right?

Like this is, you know, it's just a very different business model.

It is a very different product model.

Yeah, it's controlled.

But it's also in like a certain way is even more dangerous because like the ultimate in censorship in American First Amendment law is really prior restraint.

Prior restraint is censorship before something goes up or is ever published.

Exactly.

That is the exact distinction.

And it's important because the existence of this redaction, the proof that it was removed from Facebook, is actually evidence that censorship has happened, right?

Whereas with TikTok, you never even know what you missed.

You never even know what you were kept from seeing.

And that is really, unfortunately, what we're staring down at this moment because in the last five years...

American social media has moved towards TikTok's approach to content moderation.

That is not as clear.

But the biggest sea change is the one that you're thinking of.

which is the one that happened on January 7th of this year, 2025, when Mark Zuckerberg announced the end of the fact-checking program.

And that he was going to try to move towards a community notes-based system of content moderation.

And I mean, I think that, like, it was and it wasn't a sea change.