re: #4 Charles Johnson
There are a lot of really ugly chickens coming home to roost for these big social media platforms.
A lot of smart academics and journalists have been systematically digging into the real-world effects of their laissez-faire policies & procedures, and the studies that are going to surface in the next year or so are going to rock their worlds.
Of course, I thought that was going to be the case when “OutFoxed” came out back in the ’00s, and that turned out to be a big nothingburger, because nobody could be arsed to try to regulate what was clearly, by that point, nothing more than a toxic propaganda outfit.