Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse.

Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which leaves them open to claims of censorship and masks the true costs of misinformation.

Censorship is the removal of things already created and triggers massive uproar. But the hidden and the much larger impact of siloed control is the gatekeeping on innovation: the suppression of things that could never be created in the first place.

This question of which sources of information to trust is a challenge that all media and cultural object distribution companies – in particular social media companies with vast pools of cultural objects to pull from – have to deal with.