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Directing private companies how to execute their initiatives? >> are not directing private social media companies on how to manage the content for these are decisions they have to make. we obviously do not want to see the public square polluted with hate speech and disinformation. that is not a good use of the information environment for the american people. but it is up to the social media companies to determine how they're going to manage their contents. how they're going to deliver that content to their users. shannon: how much pushback ability do they have of the federal government and the...

Academics and policymakers need a new CERN-like central facility to study the swirl of information and news circulating online, academics have argued, or democracy risks being eroded. Amateurish software engineering, a lack of long-term support for research infrastructure, and patchy access to tech platform data are leaving academics in the dark about what the explosion of social media content, podcasts and videos are doing to society and democracy.

If you're living in tigray province at the moment and you want to know what's actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. you'd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. that's a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, you'd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and political mind—sets on the ground in tigray, through social media, through twitter, and othe...

What's going on on the ground? i mean, take a very simple example. if you're living in tigray province at the moment and you want to know what's actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. you'd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. that's a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, you'd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and political mind—sets on th...

And you want to know what's actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. you'd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. that's a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, you'd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and political mind—sets on the ground in tigray, through social media, through twitter, and other platforms that may be very powerful in ethiopia....