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Just sharing my perspective here - I noticed that US political posts are actually better moderated here than other non-US ones.

I highlight this because one of the difficulty I often face as a user on foreign social media networks is that the foreign mods are unfamiliar with our country's history (political or otherwise).

And so I find they often resort to the easier way of just removing the posts that have the most complaints, without realising that this is also one of the strategies used by the online troll army to suppress genuine criticism (all the "flagging" that you see for such posts are often online brigading by the troll army abusing the reporting tools).

In other words, the controversy is manufactured for something that isn't really controversial, and the mods are forced to step in because of the controversy and remove many of the posts, which is actully one of their goals. You unknowingly help them.

(Unfortunately, I cannot also offer a practical solution to this).



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