Social media platforms ‘have to be moderated’

Philosopher and Author Sam Harris says social media platforms “have to be moderated”. Mr Harris’ comments come as Elon Musk unbanned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from social media platform X. “If they’re not moderated, if you’re not cleaning up some of the toxicity … any of these other mainstream platforms would be like 4chan or 8chan,” Mr Harris told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “It’ll just be a completely sociopathic free-for-all. “Nobody wants that”.