Simon Adler

Right.

Okay, take it before.

And what was the justification by Facebook?

Point taken.

Okay, well, so then, like, what has changed then?

If, yes, there was some censoring going on and censoring of things in these sort of critical moments, like, would that not happen now?

Is that the difference?

Okay, so Kate, you were saying that TikTok has this fundamentally different approach to content moderation.

That instead of reactively taking stuff down, they are proactively flooding the zone with happy-making stuff.

That Facebook and X and others have taken notice and started adopting this approach.

And that all this has happened as folks have begun to see that content moderation itself is, I think you said, a vector for power.

And in that way, so if we were gone from filter bubbles to...

platform islands where the owners of the platform get to push up whatever it is that fits whatever their ideological ends are.

China and TikTok, it seems to be like milk toast stuff that's not going to rile you up, but it's going to keep your eyeballs on here.

It feels a little bit like X, formerly Twitter, is the mirror image where it's like, we're just going to rile you up all the time.

Is that right?

And is that what we're going to just see more of, which is come to this platform island for emotion A, come to that platform island for emotion B?

I remember one of the big questions, probably in the first piece we did, was this question of, like, what kind of space to consider Facebook?

Because the First Amendment treats private spaces differently than public spaces.

So it matters whether or not Facebook is more like a mall or a public square, right?