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It's a good point: Where does culpability begin and end? Twitter and Facebook have been a platform for hate perhaps..since the beginning.



There's a case to be made that Twitter and Facebook turned a blind eye to extremism for profit but Gab has no place making that case. Gab has long since passed the exit for the high road.


I mean cambridge analytica was what 6 yeras ago ? FB knows they have extremist echo chambers since then


Twitter was filled with edgy material and dark humor in 2009-2011, and Facebook's main draw was pre-woke-era college kids being drunk or trying to be clever (or both). They get to be the big incumbents now but they probably wouldn't have met the bar that's being raised for upstart competitors.




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