Search This Blog

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Endangering Democracy

 NY Times: Democracy Is Weakening Right in Front of Us Is political technopessimism our new future? By Thomas B. Edsall

That promise has been replaced by concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself. Democracies pay a price for internet freedom, under this view, in the form of disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections.

No comments: