https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c4Y1J1kyr7o?is=jxgfYa9rjWKrojjy
US president announces defamation action, accusing title of being 'virtual mouthpiece' for Democrats…
"First, the FCC should not be the President's speech police. Second, the FCC should not be journalism's censor-in-chief."
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/16/fcc-rejects-tv-petition-jessica-rosenworcel
Regarding Facebook, though, all Lanier's propositions were laid out in a buffet: in politics, it creates a bias "not towards the left or right, but downwards". Any position that could be less evidenced, more stupid, would be the one that would fly.
The manipulative algorithms, the spread of misinformation, the generation of weird hostilities, the amplification of divisive narratives – it was all right there, but on top of that Facebook was already very boring…