Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
I&#x27;d take it a step futher and borrow an adage to say platforms and media mainly say they are fighting misinformation to convince you that the rest of their content is meaningful.<p>Base reality is, they all make money on selling your attention to advertisers, and they need for you to believe  that your encounters with them are &quot;real,&quot; serendipitous, and that you aren&#x27;t just being managed like an animal in an existential zoo. Sure, there are true believers who think abusing trust and  technical power to shape narratives is honest and necessary work, and via Twain, there is no argument that will change their mind so long as they are being paid to believe in it. These would not be the first managers to mistake their own credulity for skill.<p>I&#x27;d reject that any of the platforms are seriously combating misinformation, and state it is just another trope in support of the same end, which is the global <i>brandsafing</i>  of all public discourse on behalf of their main essential coalition members - the worst, wideley acknowledged, most objectively evil and mendacious organizations in the history of world. If you don&#x27;t like how a platform puts you on a target list and actively wipes out your social capital and isolates you from your relationships and ability to make a living, people  are perfectly free to just go and start up their own purges...