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Platforms should be held responsible for the content their users publish on them, full stop.
So if some random hacker takes over your network connection and publishes illegal content which then leads back to you, you should be held responsible. It's your platform after all.
If it’s your server, then yes you should have responsibility with how you deal with said content.
How much of a responsibility? Is a token effort enough or should you be charged with a crime for not trying hard enough?
Content creators should be held responsible for their content. Platforms are mere distributors, in general terms, otherwise you're blaming the messenger.
Specific to social media (and television) yes, they bank on hate, it's known - so don't use them or do so with that ever dwindling human quality called critical thinking. Wanting to hold them accountable for murder is just dismissing the real underlying issues, like unsupervised impressionable people watching content, easy access to guns, human nature itself, societal issues...
Then user generated content completely disappears.
Without the basic protection of section 230, it's not possible to allow users to exist or interact with anything. I'm not sure you could even pay for web hosting without it.