
The news that Google will be restoring certain banned accounts on their YouTube platform is being heralded by Donald Trump and pretty much the rest of MAGA/Republican world as a “remarkable shift” in the name of free speech. But for…

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability… Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’…