Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
“There’s always been this division between your right to speak and your right to have a megaphone that reaches hundreds of millions of people,” she said.<p>One is the freedom of speech, the other is freedom of the press, we as humans have the right to both. Yet never before in history we have had access to the press power of the social media revolution. For a time, the gatekeepers took a hands-off approach, but that time is over.<p>End Internet censorship now. We need platforms where the battle of ideas can be fought and won on a level playing field without the creeping hand of censorship in the name of &quot;combating disinformation&quot; getting in the way.<p>Fact check all you want, may you win the battle of ideas. But talk of censorship, even from MIT, stinks of totalitarianism.