New Article with Karen Kornbluh, Executive Director of German Marshall Fund’s Digital Innovation & Democracy Initiative assesses how the largest social media platforms performed in limiting the spread of election misinformation.
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NPR reports on Professor Ellen P. Goodman’s Proposal for Social Media Reform
The idea is for social media to implement “circuit breakers” as exist in financial markets to slow down the viral spread of harmful conspiracy theories. Professor Goodman first generated the proposal, which was then taken up by the Center for American Progress. Facebook is reportedly experimenting with the idea.