Government should hold social media companies accountable for hate, harassment

Online is not different from the real world; it is the real world.

Social media companies like Twitter, Facebook, and others have long used the defence of being mere vehicles for communication—as if they were the postal service, or a phone company, but they are much more actively involved in the spread of information than they might claim. Photograph courtesy of Pixelkult on Pixabay

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

November 14, 2022

This week, in the third of a three-part series, Chelsea Nash and Mike Lapointe spoke to experts about potential solutions to what appears to be a pandemic of hate, harassment, and threats against politicians and other public figures. One thing is clear: there is no easy solution to resolving what i...

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