them. it makes sense a company like apple would do that, they want to do what s best for the consumer. so if they have any app with security concerns or bad content moderation problems, they re going to want to make sure that s not part of their app store. i think this is less of a free speech issue as much as it is a misunderstanding and miscommunication between musk and apple. so desantis made it, a lot of republican lawmakers, keep making these free speech argument. is that because it s convenient and resonates? it seems to totally miss the point. i think so. i think cracking down on big tech is a politically convenient issue. for a long time we saw the lawmakers going after meta, saying meta, as well as twitter, was censoring republicans. now going after apple saying apple is doing its job to sensor you know, an app governed by somebody who says they re republican. i think it s politically
one of those examples is ethiopia. we already knew that myanmar was a real problem for facebook in 2017 in the run up to the ethnic cleansing on the rohingya population there. it now appears that there are all lots of other countries that have similar moderation problems. we also now know that facebook simply isn t doing very well with younger people. in fact, it s in freefall in terms of some of its user data. and there is another story that caught my eye, it was a bbc arabic investigation into slavery on instagram. we now know that apple was considering taking facebook off the app store because of those accusations. now we have an internal report from facebook of the ways in which they told apple they would mitigate the problem and apple eventually decided not to take facebook off the app store, but that would have been a huge story. so in terms of news it s been a pretty terrible day for facebook. in terms of its quarterly earnings, however, it s been a pretty good day. it s done be