Joan Donovan and Yochai Benkler share insights on the role of social media in recent disinformation campaigns.
"What we saw on January 6 was not a young people’s revolution. This was an artifact, or an outcome, of the design of Facebook,” Donovan said. “The time is now for realizing that of course, we can’t walk back in time and do something different. But we surely can insist the future of the internet isn’t like the present.”
Read more in Harvard Magazine.