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When the World Wide Web went public in 1991, its enthusiasts proclaimed a new era of unfiltered free expression. Thirty years later, the debate is over how, not whether, to filter what’s said online. In the U.S., home to the biggest social media companies, the challenge came into greater focus during the presidency of Donald Trump, who used his accounts to attack opponents while blaming social media for — as he put it in a tweet — “suppressing voices of conservatives and hiding information and news that is good.” In a defining moment for internet moderation, Trump himself was kicked off major platforms for things he said.

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