Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is there a way to protect free speech on line while fighting misinformation and disinformation lets get to the bottom line. A lot can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it shoes the saying might be a few centuries old but it certainly rings true today anyone anywhere can publish anything and if it catches on theres no stopping what it can do either for good or for evil so how can people be protected from the nefarious manipulation of information and the disruptive promotion of false hoods by governments and organizations or should fake news be allowed to compete in an open market with real news fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have the answers to these questions melissa ryan a digital strategist strategist who studies online toxicity and extremism and writes the weekly blog control all right delete i love that name jody westby a legal expert on privacy and computer crime and the founder of global search cy
A way to protect free speech on line while fighting misinformation and disinformation lets get to the bottom line. A lot can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it shoes the saying might be a few centuries old but it certainly rings true today anyone anywhere can publish anything and if it catches on theres no stopping what it can do either for good or for evil so how can people be protected from the nefarious manipulation of information and the disrupt the promotion of false hoods by government at risk and Jennifer Brody who has worked on programs combat online dissent from asian and works at the Digital Rights group access now thank you all for joining us today where you have some fun with this one i think so let me just start with with you melissa censorship or free speech how do we draw that line between what we see is the you know my right to say what i want to do and the question of basically becoming the source of conspiracy theories and false is i thin
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