>>Large content platforms don't curate content >>it's in platforms best interest to promote engagement Agree with of what you said, but I have a quibble with

>>Large content platforms don't curate content >>it's in platforms best interest to promote engagement Agree with of what you said, but I have a quibble with the opening line The large platforms DO curate content, FAR MORE THAN any news org. Your last line quoted above points out exactly how - they actively curate every shred of content anyone posts, optimizing for 'engagement'. The fact that truth value, moral compass, or societal value (what ordinary publishers generally curate for) is roughly inversely correlated with engagement (which often follows the basest impulses) is irrelevant to the sociopaths who run those large platforms. This is exactly why a set of news orgs NOT beholden to the clickbait economy - a 'PBS for the Internet' - could be really helpful.