Fake news has no fixed meaning, and regulations would be unconstitutionally vague. 41. See also the report by the organization Hope not Hate, “Britain First: Army of the Right,” November 2017. If these firms are indeed monopolies, there would be a stronger case that their content moderation violates the First Amendment. But even there, victory is likely to be more transient than economists and pundits once thought. Richard Allan, “Hard Questions: Where Do We Draw the Line on Free Expression?,” Facebook Newsroom, August 9, 2018. The costs of such regulation might outweigh the benefits to society. 84. The platforms offer less protection for speech than the government does. Facebook says: It’s important to note that whether or not a Facebook post is accurate is not itself a reason to block it. But studies do not support that proposition. Freedom of speech is in the Constitution.. TikTok is an app that allows for the distribution of ideas and expressions. 5 (1996): 1367. The economics of network effects has turned out to be more complicated than the older theory suggests. Foreign governments, acting on behalf of their citizens, need not represent only the interests of foreigners. However, the cost of each of the government departments and bureaus and the specific line items in their respective budgets was only a fraction of the overall tax burden. Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 8. Each of these elements poses serious problems to the First Amendment. But should it? The Russian ads would have still been illegal even if the funder had been disclosed. 8.Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, 395 U.S. 367 (1969). 79. Zuckerberg argues that the accounts are being removed not because of the content of their speech but because they violate Facebook’s Community Standards, which require that an account have an authentic user. 111. 88. “Violent or Graphic Content Policies,” YouTube Help. He argues that the law would prevent naïve individuals from being drawn into supporting terrorism and thereby preclude deadly attacks. In November 2018, France gave authorities the power to “remove fake content spread via social media and even block the sites that publish it.”140 The European Commission has issued an initial report on disinformation that will be followed by a process of oversight and evaluation of online speech.141 For now, the commission is supporting principles and policies that would be enacted by stakeholders including the news media and online companies.142 Does such nudging of private actors constitute political pressure to suppress speech? Apparently, registering and thereby disclosing such agents sufficiently protects American security in those situations. This tendency no doubt did harm to society: debates were less rich and less probing than they otherwise might have been, and citizens were worse off than they might have been if they had learned the errors of their ways through a fuller debate. v. Robins, 81–82. See Michael Nunez, “Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News,” Gizmodo, May 9, 2016; see also Peter van Buren, “Extend the First Amendment to Twitter and Google Now,” The American Conservative, November 7, 2017. Yet that empowerment has its own problems, not least of which is deciding between contending armies in an age of cultural wars. “False, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting” (Collins Dictionary). On the one hand, a foreign national is prohibited from spending money on American elections, including advertising. 59. If the government has to restrict gun ownership, it has to ask weather guns necessarily lead to crimes. The UK has issued a direct challenge to China and Russia over regulation of the internet, with William Hague insisting that cyberspace must not be "stifled by government control or … Protection for Private Blocking and Screening of Offensive Material, 47 U.S.C. 639, May 27, 2009, pp. On the other hand, that ban extends only to spending on express advocacy for or against a candidate. filed Feb. 16, 2018). 49. “A surprising number of people it seems dislike being exposed to the processes endemic to democratic government. See also Matthew Prince, “Why We Terminated Daily Stormer,” Cloudflare (blog), August 16, 2017. â€œLaw enforcement, legislators, and courts have the political legitimacy and predictability to make decisions on what content should be restricted. Let’s start with Catholic social teaching in relation to education and then move on to some economic … Continue reading "Should the government control the curriculum?" Yet the government had other means to achieve that end, means that were neutral toward the content of the speech.157 Most experts assume R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992). It would be a barren marketplace of ideas that had only sellers and no buyers.94. If not, where should elected officials draw the line between permitted and prohibited speech? Plaintiffs allege no connection between the shooter, Abu Zaid, and Twitter. Social media are platforms, not publishers. These days, it seems as if the government is getting more and more involved with telling consumers what they can and can't eat. The discrimination argument also matters less if public regulation (e.g., turning social media into public utilities) seems likely to make matters worse regarding the monopoly question. Sunstein, #Republic, p. 43. And divisive speech is not illegal for Americans. We shall focus primarily on potential policies for the United States.2. If disinformation and fake news remain a problem, would the commission directly manage online speech or encourage national governments to take stronger measures to suppress such speech? 155. Whether people use these choice affordances solely to flock to content reinforcing their political preferences and prejudices, filtering out or avoiding content that espouses other viewpoints, is, however, an empirical question—not a destiny inscribed in the way social media and their algorithms function.58, In fact, abundant research casts doubt on Sunstein’s claim that individual choices on the internet are turning the nation into a polarized, possibly violent dystopia. It does not permit foreign nationals to spend money directly on elections, especially by buying advertising that supports or opposes a candidate. Reporting by the New York Times suggests that Russian efforts may have persuaded a few people to show up at a small anti‐​Muslim rally in Texas.105 Speculation about other effects abounds. It is Facebook, Medium, and Pinterest—not Congress or President Trump—that have a presumption of legitimacy to remove the speech of StormFront and similar websites. It includes protection from physical assault and in that sense is similar to the term defense.… In one definition the phrase is commonly asserted to mean “physical security, defined as the protection against attack on the territory and the people of the United States in order to ensure survival with fundamental values and institutions intact; promotion of values; and economic prosperity.”78. Elizabeth Dubois and Grant Blank, “The Echo Chamber Is Overstated: The Moderating Effect of Political Interest and Diverse Media,” Information, Communication and Society 21, no. Almost 60 percent of humans who ingest this fish die from tetrodotoxin, which is a powerful neurotoxin that damages or destroys nerve tissue. 78. Tech companies may sanction speech in circumstances where government must remain passive. But such private action presents a mixed picture for supporters of robust protections for speech. Facebook appears to want to let a thousand flowers bloom on its platform, yet it employs fact‐​checking gardeners that cut the false ones. 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Many on both sides believe that government should actively regulate the moderation of social media platforms to attain fairness, balance, or other values. 77. 164. “Prohibited Content,” AdSense Help, Google Support; “Hate Speech | Inappropriate Content | Restricted Content,” Developer Policy Center, Google Play. It may simply protect both social media owners and government officials from competition. Associating this way creates “a large risk of group polarization, simply because it makes it so easy for like‐​minded people to speak with one another—and ultimately move toward extreme and sometimes even violent positions.”55 Obviously violence might follow polarization. But the difference does not merit protecting a reader’s right to see the former and not the latter. 136–44. In the second part, we show that arguments for new public efforts fail to do that. The Mueller indictment may never move to trial because the indicted are unlikely to come to the United States. ThinkProgress took umbrage with the decision and criticized Facebook for granting a conservative publication the ability to downrank its content.137. See the updated database about fake news regulation throughout the world prepared by the Poynter Institute. Social media are, of course, economic institutions; they need to generate or have a prospect of generating revenue beyond the costs of providing the service. Consider how political speech works in the world outside the internet. Scholarly literature notes that social media have offered both costs and benefits to consumers. Such forums are protected, of course, from government censorship. If anything, the clash of disagreeing opinions is more common on social media than ideological echo chambers.66. Mark Zuckerberg, “Preparing for Elections,” Facebook, September 13, 2018. The government should restrict gun ownership because over the past years people who own guns, especially in the neighborhoods, colleges and high schools break rules and commit crimes. The public values truth, and we hope that conspiracy theories and obvious falsehoods are bad for business. In the past, the Supreme Court upheld a group libel law, Beauharnais v. Illinois 343 U.S. 250 (1952). Even speakers excluded from major platforms such as Facebook and YouTube can find a home for their speech somewhere else on the internet. 4. The constrained supply of content enabled ex ante regulation of a publication (i.e., gatekeeping). 9 (2015): 746. 51. 135. In addition, some people who are not members of these groups may view this content and could begin to sympathize with or to adhere to the violent philosophies these groups advocate. 7 (July 2018): 2450–68. They provide the means for large numbers of people to produce and consume information. What about internet speech by Russian agents? Aug. 15, 2018); Cain v. Twitter Inc., 2018 WL 4657275 (N.D. Cal. Instead the government forcibly takes our money through taxes to make sure that the poor have food, housing, money, etc. Social media managers regulate the content on a platform, but the platform does not host everything that is posted on it. 25. See Strafgesetzbuch (StGB), § 130 Volksverhetzung, 1–2. Thomas Winslow Hazlett, The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), p. 146. Once again, groups of the like‐​minded have formed. The monopoly argument for regulating social media has weaknesses. Byron York, “A Non‐​alarmist Reading of the Mueller Russia Indictment,” Washington Examiner, February 18, 2018. If you look at these different sources of information, they do not describe the same thing. 8 (December 2014): 1042–63. Bertin Martens et al., “The Digital Transformation of News Media and the Rise of Disinformation and Fake News—An Economic Perspective,” Digital Economy Working Paper 2018-02, JRC Technical Reports, pp. The first is on the emissions side. Jan. 31, 2018). Many consumers feel that the government should mind its own business and let consumers decide for themselves what they eat; however, others feel that the government is simply trying to protect consumers by regulating what they eat in order to help keep them healthy and safe. 4 (2006): 355–407. Or we will.” Byron Tau, Georgia Wells, and Deepa Seetharaman, “Lawmakers Warn Tech Executives More Regulation May Be Coming for Social Media,” Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2017. Individual speech is highly protected in the United States. As noted earlier, most of the spending by the Russians in 2016 involved issue advocacy and not express advocacy. FEC​.gov, “Foreign Nationals,” citing Bluman v. FEC, 800 F. Supp. But network effects can be just as powerful in driving people off a platform. The second part of the public interest argument must climb a steep incline. The exchange underlying social media thus implicates both commerce and fundamental rights. Courts have consistently refused to hold social media platforms liable for terrorist acts.85 The most plausible of these attempts, Fields v. Twitter, sought to make use of the civil remedies provision of the Anti‐​Terrorism Act (ATA), contending that in failing to prevent ISIS from using its platform Twitter knowingly and recklessly provided material support to a terrorist organization, rendering Twitter the proximate cause of harms suffered by ISIS victims. Hazlett, The Political Spectrum, pp. Sardinians traditionally eat this cheese with the maggots running through it - Sardinians claim the maggots make the cheese creamier as they hatch and die. The internet facilitated the exchange of views about everything, including politics. If a private forum such as Facebook owns the only place to speak and to be heard, its discrimination among viewpoints will seem a lot like censorship by the government, notwithstanding its private status. … The type of identifying information requested, as well as the options for identifying oneself vary considerably from service to service, but often include the option of creating a username, providing contact information and uploading a picture. 73–416. The public believes fake news causes “a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues and events.”128 Such confusion might cause a larger problem. To the extent the rule seeks the source, it is roughly similar to federal law governing prohibited sources of funding. In fact, the United States both censors some foreign speech and permits other speech with disclosure of the source. The owners of the companies involved may have First Amendment rights that preclude government requiring a platform to carry speech.13 Publishers have a right to editorial discretion over what to publish.14 Like publishers, platform managers choose what will appear on their platform; after all, not everything sent to the platform stays on it.15 Besides removing content, platform managers also rank content, thereby affecting the likelihood it will be seen by users. Aggression cannot create prosperity any more than it can create freedom. Denied a forum, the extremists retreated from the most widely used part of the internet to the dark web. Amos A. Jordan et al., American National Security (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. People have views about politics. Social media managers may suppress speech on their privately owned platforms, speech that elected officials could not censor in a public forum.23 Court decisions support this distinction between public and private power.24 But some nuances merit attention. 3 (July–September 2014): 354–61. As you know, climate change is caused by a … The court recognized the importance of protecting minorities. Stephen A. Siegel, “The Origin of the Compelling State Interest Test and Strict Scrutiny,” American Journal of Legal History 48, no. ... My defense is completely up to the government. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) concisely explicates the relevant law: Foreign nationals are prohibited from the following activities: Making any contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or making any expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement in connection with any federal, state or local election in the United States; … [and] making any disbursement for an electioneering communication.96, The ads could have been a “thing of value,” an “independent expenditure,” or “disbursement for an electioneering communication.”, Yet the law may not proscribe all Russian speech concerning American elections. The same court interpreted the ordinance to apply only to “fighting words,” which have been considered outside the protections of the First Amendment. But there may be an inherent problem implicitly recognized in Sunstein’s limited proposals for reform. Gatekeeping was inherent in publishing; it was relatively closed to producers but open to consumers. It will give ladies opportunity to control their life, they will be able to make the decision when to have kids, or even have them at all. 142. Indeed, as we saw, the government may not manage their speech (unless in theory they are broadcast media). 51–52. Scott Shane, “How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online,” New York Times, February 19, 2018. State and Platform Hybrid Power over Online Speech,” Aegis Series Paper no. Diplomacy requires people employed by foreign powers to speak with policy­makers on behalf of their governments. See the discussion of Russian “meddling” in the 2016 U.S. election. The Constitution offers strong protections for speech in general and not just for political speech. Concern about “interference” in U.S. elections glosses over the incoherence of current policies. For this reason, foreign speech is often regulated but not prohibited. Individuals create a user profile that social media services in turn use to connect individuals to others.6 Social media services often use data gleaned from users to target advertising to them.7. The results suggest Sunstein’s concerns are exaggerated. The rapid rise of social media might suggest traditional forums for speech no longer matter, but that is far from true. He argues that the history of suppressing speech during wartime has often later been judged to be “deeply misguided, counterproductive, and often shameful.” Post suggests that ambiguous terms such as “glorify,” “support,” and “encourage” may be interpreted to suppress legitimate dissenting speech.84 According to Posner, the work of noted First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone has established that war and speech suppression go together, but Posner does not mention that Stone believes the government’s actions were almost always unnecessary. They can defend, protect, intimidate and kill. 103. In contrast, publishing involved a small number of people communicating information to mass or special audiences. Given the plaintiffs’ failure to establish ISIS’s Twitter use as the proximate cause of their harms, the Ninth Circuit rejected Fields’ appeal. Brendan Nyhan, “Fake News and Bots May Be Worrisome, but Their Political Power Is Overblown,” New York Times, February 19, 2018. Bruce M. Owen, Jack H. Beebe, and Willard G. Manning, Television Economics (Lexington, MA: Lexington, 1974), p. 12, quoted in Hazlett, The Political Spectrum, p. 92. 140. Amy Mitchell, Elisa Shearer, Jeffrey Gottfried, and Michael Barthel, “How Americans Get Their News,” Pew Research Center, July 7, 2016. The social media company most affected by the Russian efforts is regulating itself. and publications. The goal of the FARA was to minimize foreign intervention in U.S. elections by establishing a series of limitations on foreign nationals.”98 FARA prohibited some speech, but it also permitted speech by foreigners under certain conditions. “(1) News that is made up or ‘invented’ to make money or discredit others; (2) news that has a basis in fact, but is ‘spun’ to suit a particular agenda; and (3) news that people don’t feel comfortable about or don’t agree with” (Reuters Institute, “Digital News Report 2017”). But at the moment, a reasonable person can see promise in their efforts, particularly in contrast to the likely dangers posed by government regulation. Foie Gras Foie Gras, which means "fatty liver," is banned in many states, as state governments believe the process of creating foie gras is inhumane. Let’s start with Catholic social teaching in relation to education and then move on to some economic … Continue reading "Should the government control the curriculum?" European Commission, Multidimensional, pp. The healthcare, education, and housing provided by government are more expensive, of lower quality, and in shorter supply than would be the case if government did not attempt to provide them. 80. The Mueller indictment notes that this disclosure informs “the people of the United States … of the source of information and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and law.” This information in turn allows Americans to “evaluate the statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents.” Indictment at 11, U.S. v. Viktor Borisovich Netyksho et al., Case 1:18-cr-00032-DLF (D.D.C. Even though RT is funded by the Russian government, it was required to register as a foreign agent rather than go silent. J. M. Berger, “The Difference between a Killer and a Terrorist,” The Atlantic, April 26, 2018. And so it is very difficult to figure out how democracy works over the long term in those circumstances.” He added that government should put “basic rules of the road in place that create level playing fields.” Robby Soave, “5 Things Barack Obama Said in His Weirdly Off‐​the‐​Record MIT Speech,” Hit and Run (blog), Reason, February 26, 2018. 69–70. Both activities are similar to a publisher’s editorial choices and deserve First Amendment protection.16. He remarks, “I will be arguing for the creative use of links on the Internet, although I will not suggest, and do not believe, that the government should require any links.”75 He denies that government should mandate linking to a variety of sites with different opinions to achieve the public good of better debates.76 Sunstein notes the good consequences of ending the Fairness Doctrine and does not advocate restoring it for any media, including the internet, even though he believes its demise probably increased fragmentation and polarization.77. 3d 564 (E.D. Not only is it important to recognize that alternatives exist, but that alternatives can continue to come into existence to meet user demand for differing standards of moderation. 99. The new firms also must attend more to attracting the right customers than simply adding customers. “Perceived and deliberate distortions of news with the intention to affect the political landscape and to exacerbate divisions in society” (European Commission, “Joint Research Centre Digital Economy Working Paper 2018–02”). Dahlia Lithwick, “Why Can Shopping Malls Limit Free Speech?,” Slate, March 10, 2003. Liberal governments generally do not protect people from the consequences of their beliefs; however, they do protect other people from those consequences if they are directly related to speech. 67. In some cases, state security services have asked social media platforms to refrain from removing terrorist accounts, as they provide valuable information concerning the aims, priorities, and sometimes the locations of terrorist actors.87. Based on these estimates, between one in five and one in eight social media users report being in ideological echo chambers. People check multiple sources. As you know, climate change is caused by … The values pursued by regulation are more important than the restraint of government power. Ivan Hare and James Weinstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 81. Not everyone, of course, pays taxes. But national judgments run the other way, supporting private governance of speech. Jack Stubbs and Ginger Gibson, “Russia’s RT America Registers as ‘Foreign Agent’ in U.S.,” Reuters, November 13, 2017; James Kirchik, “Why Russia’s RT Should Register as an Agent of a Foreign Government,” Brookings (blog), September 22, 2017. 159. This distinction may belie an assumption that using money to support speech would enable a foreign power to coordinate direct influence over voters and thereby affect the outcome of an election. 165. “Violent or Graphic Content Policies,” YouTube Help, Google Support. Regulations of social media companies might either indirectly restrict individual speech or directly limit a right to curate an internet platform. But they rarely give a general answer. 139. The United States regulates speech less than Europe does. The dissemination of ideas can accomplish nothing if otherwise willing addressees are not free to receive and consider them. 112. Beam et al., “Facebook News and (de)Polarization,” 1. Theresa May is a welcome exception. 71. Users of such sites do more than just passively consume information, in other words: they can also create it, comment on it, share it, discuss it, and even modify it. But fake news might not be the most likely reason for suppressing online speech. Those convicted of incitement may be jailed for up to five years.148 The United Kingdom also criminalizes the expression of racial hatred.149 In two recent cases, a hate speech conviction led to incarceration.150, The United States has debated regulating hate speech for nearly a century.151 Legal scholar James Weinstein summarizes the outcome of this debate: “The United States is an outlier in the strong protection afforded some of the most noxious forms of extreme speech imaginable.”152 The Supreme Court precludes government from regulating speech because of the message of content‐​based regulation it conveys. Cristian Vaccari, “How Prevalent Are Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers on Social Media? Of course, the efforts of the companies may warrant scrutiny and criticisms, now and in the future. Mark Zuckerberg, “Preparing for Elections,” Facebook, September 13, 2018. You can see all the ads an advertiser is running, even if they weren’t shown to you. 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