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“The playing field of the social media informational environment is uneven, and it systematically benefits autocracies.” www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

liberalcurrents.comSocial Media Has Not Brought LiberationSocial media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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@stackman.bsky.social

It's not social media, it's the paradox of open media. Free expression requires giving a platform to those who would ultimately seek to control expression, and every new medium sidesteps existing, hard-fought guardrails. Swap "social media" for "newspaper" and date it 1895 and the headline tracks.

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@stackman.bsky.social

Which is not to say we "shouldn't worry" but rather to emphasize that those guardrails that have been sidestepped were *hard-fought*, often literally, and we need to do the same hard work for others that was done for us.