Friday, December 14, 2018

Don’t Expect New, Unbiased Social Media Anytime Soon

Social media are not immune to O’Sullivan’s Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. By the time any new platforms that succeed because of a structural innovation — such as Instagram’s image-centric focus, Vine’s short-video niche, or Snapchat’s compatibility with modern decision-making faculties — reach the critical mass necessary to attract political voices, they will have become governed entirely by censorious moderators who consider it axiomatic that cultural free speech is inherently right-wing.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/conservative-friendly-social-media-structural-barriers/

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