Thread by @slpng_giants

This piece underscores how far we’ve come since Pizzagate. In the wrong direction.

Social media companies have not learned a thing and we’re seeing the results:

@twitter hasn’t even bothered to remove two of Pizzagate’s biggest propagandists, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1361707513545187332

.@Facebook has now allowed rumors to spread on their platforms that have touched off a genocide and, likely soon, yet another.

@youtube has allowed QAnon and the anti-vaccine movement to grow from fringe theories to massive movements.

And now, after Parler (along with Facebook) enabled militia groups to literally plan the overthrow of the US government and almost succeed, @SkySilkCloud is allowing it back online using their servers.

We have learned nothing.

In the quest for engagement and advertising dollars and attention, we have lost our collective minds.

This is not, nor has it ever been about free speech, it has been about money and power.

The ability to control the narrative and the ability to squeeze money out of it.

We’ve always had free speech in this country and have never had worldwide cults form in mere months or the murders of 52 Muslims live-streamed to millions of the ability for militia groups to coordinate an Insurrection of the government across multiple states.

The problem is that tech companies still don’t get it. They continue to allow people with the very worst of intentions to take advantage of their platforms in exchange for engagement.

Here’s the thing, though:

Quarterly earnings don’t mean a thing if society crumbles.