The point is that I think you must go upstream to deal with it, fundamentally, in terms of infrastructure. I think some witnesses also mentioned that we need to look at education, which I totally agree with, but when it does happen, and when you have the proliferation of false information, there must be a downstream or an end result kind of reach.
That's where I think your example of Sri Lanka is very pertinent, because it demonstrates that, left unchecked, the platforms would do nothing about the false information that goes around. What we do need is to have regulators and governments clothed with powers and levers to intervene swiftly and to disrupt the viral spread of online falsehoods very quickly.
Would you agree?