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I highly doubt that individuals at each company are actively manually deleting tweets or instagram posts.

Asymptotically as the size of the staff that can delete things grows, the probability that at least one of them would be willing to delete things for "ideological purposes" will approach 1, right?

The internal monitoring and codified repercussions also grow at the same time, I'd hope..

For sure, and we may well end up seeing some number of content moderators fired. As with any major crisis, there's gonna be people who feel that it's worth losing their job over.

I highly doubt anyone will lose their job for censoring Palestinians if not rewarded for it. Facebook has been banning Palestinians or pages sympathetic to them for a while now without any consequences. I would actually argue the volume of censorship of Palestinians has increased as the deep state’s control over Facebook has increased.

Moderation is not a highly paid position anywhere.

Or keep posts up if they fit their ideology

The recent twitter hack exposed that certain topics could be boosted or hidden by low-level employees. No need for manual curation.

Twitter literally did exactly that: https://twitter.com/swolecialism/status/1392262652156592144

More context: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8b4x/twitter-said-it-restr...

The censored tweets were _hand edited_.

Maybe not, but they certainly do worse:

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-insiders-saudi-arabia-sp...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

israel has done more than that, so has the usa. Heck, you can get a check on the side to be an inside mole.

I doubt it’s not happening.

To what extent, and if leadership knows and directs it are real questions.

Never underestimate just how petty human beings can be.

Heck, it even happens on TV ... look up "A staffer at local Fox affiliate Q13 has been fired after the station aired what appears to be a doctored video of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office." Sometime in 2019.

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