Siva Vaidhyanathan in his book Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy,
After all, lie machines are a complex sociotechnical system.
By this I mean that the best way to build a data-rich democracy is not to police news content closely, because that would be just treating the symptom. It should be about repairing the flow of data within democracies and should present people with new opportunities for civic engagement and civic expression.
House of Commons. Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Disinformation and “Fake News”: Interim Report. UK Parliament, HC 363, July 29, 2018. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/363/363.pdf.
Howard, Philip N., Samuel Woolley, and Ryan Calo. “Algorithms, Bots, and Political Communication in the US 2016 Election: The Challenge of Automated Political Communication for Election Law and Administration.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 15, no. 2 (2018): 81–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2018.1448735.
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