Is the words "racist Twitter" redundant?

I agree that it shouldn't die, but evolve. It has been fascinating to see Tik Tok during interesting moments in time act as a boots on the ground view of a major incident. But wrongdoers just trying to stir up ad revenue or trying to sew mistrust and disinformation are always going to be a huge problem. Not to mention dipshits like in the op just making things up, whatever their motivation was.

Freedom of speech in the United States is freedom from repercussions from the government for your speech, but all of these platforms removing moderation and leaning in to this free speech ethos are lying about their motivation and hiding behind these free speech implications. And now they are all, predictably, absolutely riddled with misinformation.

It is my hope that the next big social media platform is one that is very open to moderation and aggressively removes hate speech and misinformation. I just don't know how you do that without throwing out the baby with the bathwater, taking too aggressive an approach to content moderation could catch legitimate posts and is going to piss users off and make them leave the platform. These companies did try for a while, before they went full "actively contributing to the destruction of humanity" capitalist dystopia.

that's slighly different, because you are sharing an article from a news organization, you can place the blame and/or trust on that organization, but just random people posting a picture with some text? i would dismiss 100%

public feedback + engagement algorithms != public feedback

Also, plenty of news outlets have comments and voting. How do we know they're real people and not bots? Same way we know with social media: we don't. There's something to be said for actual journalists and editors who have to build and maintain their reputation.

Of course, Gramma, now it's time for bed.