But Facebook and YouTube’s choice to pull back the curtain is also a careful bit of corporate messaging. YouTube chose to share just one vague stat, while Facebook never mentioned how many views, shares or comments 300,000 videos received before they were taken down. It’s less an open book and more of an attempt to show their work and assuage critics that, despite claims of negligence, the tech giants are, in fact, “on it.”Most troubling, it’s also a bid to reframe the conversation toward content moderation rather than addressing the role the platforms play in fostering and emboldening online extremism.