Tech Talk: Talking Tech with Paul Gowder on The Networked Leviathan
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It’s a modern day reality that large social media platforms deliver political information to many citizens, making these companies’ policies for removing and blocking speech critical to politics and culture. Emergencies such as the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar can be traced in part to misinformation and hate speech shared online via large social media platforms. The problem of how social media companies should create policies to govern these spaces makes them uniquely quasi-governmental, a role, still developing today. Join us today as we discuss CDT’s non-resident fellow Paul Gowder‘s book The Networked Leviathan.
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