Kate Klonick

Okay, so not much, which is why this was a really... Okay.

Which is why this was such a...

Such a frustrating announcement, and it was frustrating that the media focused on it so much.

The fact-checking was like a commitment to fact-checking because there had been so much clamor about mis- or disinformation.

But they were removing posts days after they were flagged, and, like, it was very small.

And so to watch it go on the chopping block was really more of a signal.

To a very particular person and to a very particular party that felt like big tech censorship was coming for them.

And like, you know, we can get into a whole kind of conversation about whether or not that was reality based, but that was kind of the complaint.

And you can even go before the pandemic.

There's a few things.

The Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Reporting lays out purported emails between Hunter Biden and a Ukrainian businessman.

New York Post, they broke the story and links to that were taken off Facebook and Twitter.

That was absolutely censored.

Well, that was happening a couple weeks before the 2020 election.

And so what had been the huge concern for Facebook and all these other companies was how social media impacted the 2016 election.

And so they made a lot of big changes.

And one of them was just kind of like, we're not going to allow things that could possibly be foreign influence to stay up because this is exactly what we got yelled at in 2016.

And so they kind of overcorrected.

And I think in hindsight, it was a really hard call and maybe probably the wrong one.