Big Tech has been using the WHO as an “authority” on health related matters instead of official health guidelines from the President of the United States
was with you until here.
Either platforms editorialize and fact check at all (and become publishers)
or they remain a neutral platform and do zero editorials or fact checking (remaining a platform).
A sensible standard would be that platforms can moderate and delete content based on a set of standards as long as they are open about what they are, and they can also publish their own opinions separately, as long as they are clear which is which.
But if they "fact check" user content or otherwise editorialise about it, then they lose protection for the user content as it has become part of their own publication.
was with you until here.
Either platforms editorialize and fact check at all (and become publishers)
or they remain a neutral platform and do zero editorials or fact checking (remaining a platform).
A sensible standard would be that platforms can moderate and delete content based on a set of standards as long as they are open about what they are, and they can also publish their own opinions separately, as long as they are clear which is which.
But if they "fact check" user content or otherwise editorialise about it, then they lose protection for the user content as it has become part of their own publication.