Something that the product teams at Meta (and others) need to understand, that Zuckerberg knows to be true, is they cannot actually compete long term with free

Something that the product teams at Meta (and others) need to understand, that Zuckerberg knows to be true, is they cannot actually compete long term with free speech. The main problem is this quasi-human mostly-automated moderation system to appease advertisers rightfully concerned their product ads being served along side Nazi rhetoric or something similarly vile. But I think that moderation is actually artificially driven by legacy print and television media corporations desperately clinging to straws as technological advancements disintermediates their influence on the people. Legacy media is directly threatened by social media platforms, so it's not a surprise they're incentivized to call into question the content itself. Every ad dollar not being spent by social media platforms is a potential dollar being spent on legacy media platforms. The thing is adults prefer to use a social network that treats adults like an adults, rather than a children. It doesn't take a genius to see Threads is for children and the adults are hanging out on X. The problems of advertising on X are almost certainly temporarily and can be resolved much quicker than the network effect.