Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/20252. Some kind of mechanism of direct control. I've seem claims on this site that there's overlap between FB policy setters and project 2025 authors. Seems possible and easy to verify 100
Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/20253. Expectations of incentives (financial sanctions, financial subsidies, antitrust action, other forms of favor) by the Trump admin toward FB based on their choice of moderation policy. I sort of think this is why? Kind of obviously? 100
Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Offering financial rewards or punishments for companies to take stances on social issues is pernicious. At an individual level its easy to view this as a carrot or a stick, which an individual company can choose whether to respond to. But zoomed out, it's better viewed as a tax or a subsidy. 100