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Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?

Hard Fork

CHAPTER

The Rise of the Trolls on Social Media

The Q and on movement did not start on Facebook. It started on 4chan, but it spread from there to every other network. Just because a network is smaller doesn't mean that the rest of us are going to be protected once that conspiracy theory moves off a small platform into,. let's say, the mainstream of the Republican Party. And I think that it's certainly possible that as the 2024 election approaches that these problems will get more salient. But it makes a lot of sense to me that there isn't as much investment in trust and safety these days as there was a few years ago.

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