You don't understand the enemy they are really fighting with. Social media is a challenge to the power of the legacy media in the US, and misinformation is the

You don't understand the enemy they are really fighting with. Social media is a challenge to the power of the legacy media in the US, and misinformation is their job (e.g. Iraq WMD's and Russiagate), damn it! These companies that wield social and political power in the US and their representatives in congress are fighting to weaken social media's legal liability shield for user generated content (forcing them to censor more) in order to preserve their dominance in the information marketplace. Social media companies are taking steps to crack down on this in order to head off this regulation. They don't give a shit about other countries because the legacy US media that are behind this don't serve that market, and by extension, don't care. And their default position is to just let anything go, because that is cheaper and drives engagement.