To me there is a difference between a &quot;platform&quot; like twitter, reddit, where I think it behooves them and it&#x27;s essential to society that they allow free speech in their forums.  Or, to be specific, allow communities to establish  their own speech policies.<p>On these forums commenters are essentially the producers and the operators harvest the commenters&#x27; input.<p>News organizations and other outlets of information where the production is inhouse, or at least, the content is more resource intensive, I think don&#x27;t have the same obligation.
One of their needs is to keep their news and their bias and story (sorry, narrative) prominent, which is their prerogative.<p>I can see them however having &quot;approved&quot; or heavily moderated comments, but, again, at their volume, it might not make economic sense, unless they ship that function off to the Philippines or mechanical turk, but then they have to lay their biases bare in outlining their guidelines.