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Globe says Meta, rivals must fight Russia's fake news
2024-06-17 08:57 ET - In the News
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The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday, June 17, edition that there are some extremely bright people fighting on the front lines in the war against misinformation and disinformation. The Globe's guest columnist Andrew MacDougall writes that the bad news is, we are fighting the Russians on their terms and we are losing. The West has gifted the Russians the tools and platforms they now use to incite us into tearing our own societies apart. There appears to be little appetite to do what is required to turn the tide -- namely, reform Western tech platforms. We cannot, and will never, "out-Russia" the Russians on social media, not with the way these platforms are currently architected and run, and not if we abide by Western principles and values. At present, social media platforms are emotion-led, content-agnostic and untethered to truth. Given that these are Western companies, we have the ability to adjust these imperatives and tilt the digital battlefield back in our favour. To start, we should make anonymity on social media a privilege, not a right. Protecting a limited number of legitimate whistle-blowers is an easier problem to solve than cleaning up the authoritarian-authored messes enabled by mass anonymity.
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