Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they created
(World News USA)

NEW YORK (AP) - Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology`s brightest minds should have seen that coming. Social media bans of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have thrust Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others into a role they never wanted - as gatekeepers of discourse on their platforms, deciding what should and shouldn`t be allowed and often angering almost everyone in the process. Jones, a right-wing provocateur, suddenly found himself banned from most major social platforms this week, after years in which he was free to use them to promulgate a variety of false claims. Twitter, which one of its executives once called the `free speech wing of the...