In the before times, we used government regulation to enforce private company responsibility in accordance with authority.

If Meta and X want to be a public square, then one of the costs should be hiring enough human moderators to rapidly review critical cases (political, health, hate/conspiracy, etc).

If they don't... fine, then make money doing something else.

But at their current scale, this is really a resource allocation question about whether their margin is a few points higher or lower.

Absolving themselves of democratic responsibilities in exchange for a few bucks is gross.