[mansion7]

For not being in the same leagues as the big boys, they have outsized power to twist and shape political narratives, they know it and they gleefully exercise it.

Consider the fact that their CEO (admittedly!) abused his admin privileges to fraudulently impersonate users, posting fake messages AS them, expressly to frame them.

We would not know about it, and he might still be doing it today if not for some observant moderators. But nothing happened to him, at all - in fact the people and subreddit he hacked were themselves banned.

THAT is power. THAT is what is meant by "big tech".

[andrewflnr]

It's power, but it's not what people mean by "big tech". That is still a lower tier of power than Google, Meta, or Microsoft. It's just not close. Consider how many congressional lobbyists they command, for instance, if not their effects on speech.