Twitter and Facebook transformed US politics into a shouting match. Has it saved their monopoly status, or doomed it?

As Twitter and Facebook’s

As Twitter and Facebook’s CEOs struggled to please opposing political camps demanding mutually exclusive “reforms” during Tuesday’s Senate hearing, the dysfunctional echo chambers they created may have sealed their fate.

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg must have felt a bit like Dr. Frankenstein as they were pulled between Democrats and Republicans during Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on censorship and election meddling in social media. After all, their platforms created the political “monster” that is 2020’s divided America – a country in which civilized debate has been replaced by mudslinging and respectable individuals are wary of ideas that have not been pre-vetted by fact-checkers.

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