Big tech was allowed to spread misinformation unchecked. Will Biden hold them accountable?
by Joan Donovan and Amed Khan from Technology | The Guardian on (#5DCCH)
Social media platforms have become information monopolies with runaway scale, an ideal place for conspiracy theories to fester
Donald Trump's election lies and the 6 January attack on the US Capitol have highlighted how big tech has led our society down a path of conspiracies and radicalism by ignoring the mounting evidence that their products are dangerous.
But the spread of deadly misinformation on a global scale was enabled by the absence of antitrust enforcement by the federal government to rein in out-of-control monopolies such as Facebook and Google. And there is a real risk social media giants could sidestep accountability once again.
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