I'll quickly respond to that by saying that the biggest problem we face today is that the laws we have evolved in the physical world don't exist in the virtual world and, in many ways, we have all fallen for this idea that the virtual world is different from the real world, but it isn't—we only live in one reality.
There's something very simple that the platforms have done. After January 6 in the United States and that violence, Facebook did its “break glass” moment: It turned up something it called the “news ecosystem quality”, which is news ecosystem quality for quality news—right?—and facts.
When they did that, CrowdTangle, which a tool that shows you which are the top 10, all of a sudden had NPR, The New York Times and news story organizations that are liable for their content come up in the top 10.
But that only stayed for a few weeks, because after it became safe again, they turned it back down. Then you have the toxic sludge coming back up again. Why? It made less money.
First, I think, insist that the laws of the real world are in the virtual world. That doesn't require new laws. It does require accountability. Sidestepping accountability for distribution is the wrong thing to do, and we have allowed that for too long.