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A bright and clear line is usually hard to get in laws, and with big tech giants it will become a judgement call. They will have mountain of project goals, development requirements, test documents, q/a objectives and sometimes code documentation that all will describe what the algorithm is intended to do. In discovery phases it is also very common to see people being very explicit in internal communication.

Let say investigators would look at ycombinators and the design of the algorithm. Do we expect to see a major publishing-style on what content get promoted? Doubtful. There have been exception where they seem to have done moderation that has been close to publishing, like the early time around metoo, but they seem also to have been fairly open that they were experiment with moderation and testing how it effected the community. I remember HN moderator posts in the past talking a bit about promoting important articles or demoting tiresome topics.