> The platforms’ sudden action in response to an outpouring of public grief and rage resembles, at first glance, a moral awakening and suggests a mounting sense of responsibility to the body politic.

Resembles is the key word here. Many of the sites knew this stuff was going on and didn't mind at all. Unfortunately I think this is all reactionary and they're not going to keep these policies up. They only care they're getting bad press, not because they ACTUALLY care about the issue.

For example it's nice that Twitter removed a bunch of problematic accounts, but there are TONS more. Reddit still has plenty of very problem subreddits. I'm sure there are still problematic Facebook pages.

Will they clean those up as people stop watching? Or did they 'do somethinrg' so now they're good?