This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, November 3rd, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

When social media platforms amplify or minimize your speech

is that itself an active of speech and should legal liability

attach to the platform that uses algorithms to make those decisions.

Cato's Paul Matzco details the next big fight over social media platforms and free speech.

Many state actors around the globe have decided to meddle with social media platforms. The United States has not yet decided the degree to

which it would like to meddle in social media platforms, but there is a rather large contingency that is looking

as scant at Facebook, Twitter, Tik-Tock, the whole meta-group of platforms, what should we know about

how content gets served up to us on these platforms?

So you should think of social media platforms as existing on a spectrum.

They're not all created equal,

they all function in different ways.

And we use one big label to describe all of them,

which does a disservice to the differences between them.

So think of social media as being on a spectrum from familiarity to novelty.

So some platforms serve you up content that is from familiar sources.

So if you go on Facebook, you're not finding pictures of some other random person's

kids. No, you're finding pictures of your

your niece's newborn child right if you go on Instagram most of the content you receive is

from people you already follow. So some celebrities,

avocado toast pictures is what's being served to you in your feed.

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