Meta's Dismantling of Integrity Teams

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I think these are great criticisms. I co-sign basically everything that you just said. Meta has a lot to answer for. It's also true that Meta has dismantled some of the integrity teams that it had built over the past several years on the wake of the 2016 election. We have to keep paying attention to it. To me, it's just kind of an order of operations thing. The bottom of your pyramid of hierarchy of needs is Twitter, circa 2022. That thing is no longer Twitter. And I have tried every other network as they have shown up. So I'm open to it being anything, but I do think it needs to be something."

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