>We're discussing the public platforms that Facebook, Twitter and Google run, and I don't consider those three companies as publishing the content they host. D

>We're discussing the public platforms that Facebook, Twitter and Google run, and I don't consider those three companies as publishing the content they host. Don't you consider it publishing when they express editorial control over what topics are allowed on their platform, without transparency or accountability of what the forbidden topics are at any given point of time? They also modify the user generated content and add labels and "fact checks" which are prominently displayed.