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The Rise of the Trust and Safety Industry in the Tech World
CNN's John Sutter has a hypothesis that we may have passed peak trust and safety in the tech world. He says some fringe candidates will run not because they think they can win, but because it gives them a platform to advance their views into the mainstream. After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Instagram account was taken down for promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, he decided to run for president. This seems like basically a backwards system: If I were a social network, one rational thing you could do was apply stricter standards on more prominent people.