Simon Adler

TikTok figured out how to package any information to keep you there.

And it seems to then be a very different informational ecosystem you're creating because if you're pushing up everything that falls within certain bounds and you're deciding what those bounds are, it becomes –

Far more like it's controlled.

The right word.

What's what's the word?

Sorry.

Excuse me.

What is prior restraint?

Oh, so it's not redacted.

It's that it was never printed.

Wow.

OK, I didn't expect us to be talking about TikTok so much, but I'm glad we have.

So if I'm telling the story of this, it's like once upon a time, Facebook creates content moderation for everything, all these policies, all these rules.

Meanwhile, TikTok is sort of lurking across the Pacific, eventually jumps over and Zuckerberg and the Silicon Valley folks see they're doing it this very different way.

When does that actually start to shift, not just the way Facebook is thinking about its content moderation, but also maybe the way people are experiencing Facebook as a result?

Okay, well, and talk to me, like, when we say Facebook got rid of its fact-checking, at its sort of height, what was Facebook's fact-checking?

Right.

And if I'm going to mount the best defense for conservatives about censorship by big tech, it would be that during the pandemic, there was sort of a party line as to what was an acceptable way to talk about the origins of of the pandemic.

Right.

Yeah.