Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, 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…
