Social media platforms are the broadcasters of the 21st century. Like traditional broadcasters, social media platforms choose—through their algorithms—which stories to amplify and which to suppress. But unlike traditional broadcasters, the social media companies are not held accountable by any standards other than their own ever-changing decisions on the types of speech they will allow on their platforms. And their algorithms are not transparent. https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/01/05/how-we-built-a-facebook-inspector
