part 2: how does cda 230 shape efforts to combat
online political disinformation?

Because of its potential threat to democratic processes and institutions,
policymakers and scholars have begun to propose a range of legal and
regulatory responses to online political disinformation. As is the case in other
contexts, attention has turned toward the central role that online platforms play
in hosting and facilitating the objectionable activity.2 One recent examination
of online media and sharing behavior during the 2016 election season
concluded simply that “[d]isinformation and propaganda are rooted in
partisanship and are more prevalent on social media” (Faris et al. 2017).
Speciﬁcally,
the set of websites which receive a
disproportionate amount of attention on Facebook were also cited by
independent sources and media reporting as creators and distributors of
“inaccurate if not blatantly false reporting” (Faris et al. 2017, p. 15).

the study found that
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