Both Google and Facebook have acted
surprisingly quickly to remove disinformation related to the COVID-19 virus
over the past few weeks, considering their somewhat mixed track record when it
comes to removing hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and trolls related to political
campaigns.
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| Mathew Ingram |
But experts there is still a lot
more that they and other digital platforms could be doing. CJR spoke this week
with Karen Kornbluh and Ellen Goodman, co-authors of a new paper published by
the German Marshall Fund entitled "Safeguarding Digital Democracy,"
which includes a series of steps they say the major digital platforms need to
take in order to deal with the problem. Kornbluh is a former US Ambassador to
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and a senior fellow
at the GMF and director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative, and
Goodman is a professor at Rutgers Law School, co-founder and co-director of the
Institute for Information Policy & Law and a non-resident fellow at the GMF. For the rest of the article Click Here.
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