Biden and Section 230: New administration, same problems for Facebook, Google and Twitter as …

CLOSEDelivering his first remarks on the steps of the Capitol overrun by an angry mob two weeks ago, President Joe Biden called for an end to America’s “uncivil” war.“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war,” he said. “And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.”Even as he spoke, a conspiracy theory was spreading on social media, that federal troops were not in Washington to safeguard the proceedings but to intimidate conservatives. News outlet Axios reported that the theory began with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, building on right-wing anger over the perception that the major platforms, Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube censor opposition voices.”Look for this to be a unifying argument of the right as the Biden era begins,” wrote Mike Allen, co-founder of Axios, wrote in his morning newsletter.Twitter purge angers conservatives: Trump allies and Republican lawmakers lost thousands of followers in Twitter purge after Capitol riots’Burn down DC’: Violence that erupted at Capitol was incited by pro-Trump mob on social mediaNew administration.  » Read More