A New York University survey found that the greatest threat to democracy and elections in 2024 is the social media. Meta, Google and X have not fixed the problems that enabled the January 6 insurrection. (The Washington Post, February 14, 2024, by Will Oremus)
In 2023 X has lost its leadership in content moderation, not only failing to remove hate speech but subtracting features allowing users to report misinformation. TikTok and Meta have also been slow to remove false information. (Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 17, 2024, by Paige Collings and Jillian C. York)