The debate over Silicon Valley's embrace of content moderation

Many in tech cheered when Twitter added labels to President Trump's tweets. But civil libertarians caution that social media companies are moving into uncharted waters.

The existential question that every big tech platform from Twitter to Google to Facebook has to wrestle with is the same: How responsible should it act for the content that people post?
 

The answer that Silicon Valley has come up with for decades is: Less is more. But now, as protests of police brutality continue across the country, many in the tech industry are questioning the wisdom of letting all flowers bloom online.
 

After years of leaving President Trump’s tweets alone, Twitter has taken a more aggressive approach in recent days, in several cases adding fact checks and marks indicating