"In the days following January 6, Meta, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitch suspended former president Donald Trump over posts the companies said glorified the violence at the Capitol. It was the most extreme moderation decision these companies had ever made."
"As a result of these attacks, the Stanford Internet Observatory, one of the top disinformation research groups, shut down for good over the summer."
"Now, much of the social media infrastructure built to protect our democratic systems in the months and days after the deadly riot has collapsed-either by inattention or force."
"Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into X, a conspiratorial wasteland where professional disinformation purveyors earn thousands of dollars peddling lies."
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