![]() The downstream impact these companies have on shaping independent thought, market access, consumer behavior, election integrity and speech are undeniable. ![]() Facebook, by its own admission, has the power to swing elections - which is troubling, as some of the platform’s “ fact checkers” are partially bankrolled by a Chinese company. Twitter’s choices to cut off circulation of certain content - as they did when they banned circulation of a story critical of the Biden family, a month before the November election - very much shapes the national news narrative. When Google decides to suppress or amplify content, it does so for 90% of the global marketplace. That these are merely private companies exercising their First Amendment rights is a reductive framing which ignores that they do so in a manner that is privileged - they are immune to liabilities to which other First Amendment actors like newspapers are subject - and also that these content moderation decisions occur at an extraordinary and unparalleled scale. A handful of Big Tech companies are now controlling the flow of most information in a free society, and they are doing so aided and abetted by government policy.
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