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> Now for a followup question: How does any website surface any content when they're liable for the content?

Chronological order, location based, posts-by-followed-accounts, etc. "Most liked", etc.

Essentially by only using 'simple' algorithms.

Is not the set of such things offered still editorial judgement?

(And as an addendum, even if you think the answer to that is no, do you trust a judge who can probably barely work an iphone to come to the same conclusion, with your company in the crosshairs?)

I'd say no, because they averages over the entire group. If you ranked based on say, most liked in your friends circle, or most liked by people with a high cosine similarity to your profile, then it starts to slide back into editorial judgment.

Not really, as the variables comes from the content itself, not from the company intention.

And for the addendum, that's why we have hearings and experts. No judge can be expected to be knowledgable about everything in life.

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