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    8 days ago

    Basically they want to reach as wide as possible, so they tend to clear out or lock any controversy content behind something, even to the point of being ball-less and/or pro-fascism.

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      Oh, they love controversial content. If they can put ads on it. Engagement and hatewatching are great for an ad business.

      It just can’t be formatted in a way advertisers want to avoid or regulators want to regulate. The result leads to very weird, very toxic patterns of content and nobody wants to fix it (or has any particularly effective ideas about how).