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Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit

elsergiovolador Silver badge

Censorship

The law puts politically manipulative misinformation on equal footing with good-faith opinion and verifiable facts.

This assumes that the platforms are not going to publish only manipulative misinformation and hide good faith opinion and verifiable facts.

It's a double edged sword. Social media platforms have the bias towards the highest bidder, not the truth.

I think that the reader should be the ultimate judge of whether information at hand is a manipulation or something worth considering.

The problem is that, the education system would have to teach people how to recognise propaganda, manipulation techniques, how to do own research, fact check and so on and that eventually will remove the biggest tool people in power have to use against general population.

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