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>Facebooks problem is that it does editorialize -- communication and interactions from within a culture, outside of that culture.

How does this apply to Facebook posts made by regular users? It's one thing if Facebook's own news feed is peddling fake news, but if regular people choose to post an article on their wall, why is it Facebook's or the government's job to assess the veracity of the article and take it down?

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Because Facebook's algorithm decides what appears on each users' news feed, by that, even though it's an algorithm without human intervention, it can be said that filters / censors content.

If it wouldn't filter out content and it would just show every bit of content that each user uploads on each of their friends' news feed, it wouldn't be a problem. In Germany if you act as an editor over content (whether it's a script or human) it comes with responsibilities.

Also Reddit algorithm decides what is shown to people.

And, beside the fact that you can choose if you want the algorithm ordering or just the normal one, if you scroll down enough your news feed you will see all the post, so it's not actually filtering out content, beside for content that break their T&C

All users logged in or otherwise get the same content within a single subreddit. Users choose what sub reddit they want to see . That is big difference from Facebook choosing for me

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