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“When you have a newspaper, you are responsible for what is published in it. When you have a social network, you must be responsible for what is published on it.” We need to hold social networks accountable. Also, someone-a person-puts those posts up. We should be able to know who that person is.

“We have allowed a democratic public space to develop where everyone is hooded and anonymous, where the rule is that you have to insult others if you want to be popular, where you don’t know, in this public space…whether you are dealing with real people or…”

“fake people, and where you give equal value to someone who shouts much louder and tells you: ‘This vaccine is not a vaccine. What you are telling me is false and spreads the worst kind of misinformation.’ We live in a public space that looks like this.”

“I will put it more bluntly. We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies….“

This is going to rattle around in my head too.

Ella Kelly

@kazamella.bsky.social