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Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “, social media users have questioned the value of content moderation. Is it an important tool for protecting the safety and efficiency of a platform, or a systematic method of censorship? In my view, content moderation merely represents a broken system – the insatiable requirement of human sacrifice for the sake of technological advancement, and its use as a veil to obscure the profit-driven motives of social media companies.
Content moderation has been embedded in the legal framework of online platforms…