I can start.
I understand that you want to separate things like voter suppression tactics from junk news and junk content. However, when we're thinking about how to deal with one of those things and not the other, it's very difficult to say that we would regulate the platforms only for one thing and we're going to have a completely different solution for the other. The conversations go together, because the mechanisms for getting the information to the front page of somebody's newsfeed are the same.
There's that sort of technical challenge there, but then I think the idea of how we balance this against questions about free speech is a really important one. We don't want to have a democracy where there are people who don't get to share their opinions, where certain views are silenced. That is certainly a problem.
We have to think about the changing media system, though. We have to think about the fact that it used to cost a lot more money and take a lot more resources to spread disinformation. Now it's very easy to spread it.
We also know that people used to not have a whole lot of choices in terms of what content they were getting. For them to be media literate, and not be lazy, in your terms, was a lot simpler. There were fewer checks that they needed to do. There was less work that they had to do to make sure they knew what content was showing up and who created it. There were only so many people who could afford a broadcast licence.
The expectations we put on the citizens in that context are very different from the expectations we would put on citizens now, in saying, “Look, we can't regulate platforms. This is the responsibility of citizens.” In the media environment that we have, I think it's unreasonable to expect citizens to be able to discern the different sources of content, what is true and what isn't, without some support.
I don't want to let citizens off the hook. I think that digital literacy and media literacy are very important, but I think it's one piece of a larger puzzle.