How did the 'insurrection' cause catastrophic risk to Twitter?
If the insurrection had been successful the best case scenario would be economic collapse and possibly civil war in the country where these platforms are based out of. It is likely that many states would reject the sovereignty of the federal government if it didn't honor the outcome of the election, and from there things would quickly spiral out of control.
The potential outcome from the end of democracy in the us would entail catastrophic risk for the companies based here.
It’s outrageously hypocritical that the Russian official’s account is alive today. They didn’t even slap a warning label on his tweet.
Twitter can't prevent this from happening by censoring a russian official.
The situation says more about the deep division and anxiety within society that made it possible than social media being a cause.
It's easy after the fact to lay blame, but interfering in discussion, even heated and wild, is an easy slope into censorship and tyranny.
No it won't, not in meaningful numbers. Most people don't want that kind of garbage in their feeds. If they did 4chan would be more popular than Twitter.
Most people don't want to have disgusting, antidemocratic viewpoints forced on them by social media. They want to not see that stuff.
If a platform is too large to be moderated effectively, there needs to be a discussion about what happens next, which indeed is either free-for-all, clear moderation policy or opaque random and easily biased decisions.