That filtering is not absolute control, but it is enough to control an election, consider these stats: http://www.journalism.org/2018/09/10/news-use-across-soc

That filtering is not absolute control, but it is enough to control an election, consider these stats: http://www.journalism.org/2018/09/10/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2018/ http://www.journalism.org/2018/09/10/news-use-across-social-... Especially with 'AI-based filtering', which blurs the lines on what is filtered and why, these companies have both significant discretion and plausible deniability when it comes to censoring content.