Despite what the media wants you to believe, social media platforms don’t have a “hate speech” problem

Mainstream media outlets constantly push the idea that social media sites have a “hate speech” problem.

This narrative is often effective at pressuring social media sites into introducing more aggressive hate speech rules and because hate speech is a vague and subjective term, these rules are then used as a vehicle to censor jokes, opposition, criticism, and other types of innocuous content.