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by naasking 1806 days ago
> Editorial control over twitter.com is Twitter's freedom of expression as well.

That's debatable. What twitter decides to promote, in feeds and other things via algorithms, certainly falls under their freedom of expression. But their "editorial control" currently also extends over hosting comments by others as well (which they can choose not to promote), and that is questionable and arguably could be made illegal. We had a recent discussion on an article by a legal scholar that argues for this distinction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762145