Information & Ethics committee  Trust is a difficult concept in relationship to journalism. I might trust Fox News and you might trust MSNBC, and we both have high degrees of trust in the journalism we're consuming, so I'm not sure that's the core metric on an individual level. On a societal level, I think we

Information & Ethics committee  I would briefly add that the bot issue is in many ways the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger conversation that you alluded to, which is around the governance of AI. This issue we're talking about today, about information in our democracy, is embedded in a much larger debate abo

Information & Ethics committee  More broadly on the content moderation issue, there's clearly a broad spectrum of potential harmful speech and a broad range of ways to address different problems along that spectrum—hate speech, child pornography, and criminal activity on one end of the extreme, and maybe just p

Information & Ethics committee  I think Professor McKelvey might be best positioned to answer this one.

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with those four.

Information & Ethics committee  On enforcement, there is a reason that GDPR sets the penalties at global revenue, not localized revenue, because if you don't do that, there's very little incentive for structural change. I think that's a cue on where we need to go on the penalty side.

Information & Ethics committee  Can I make a point on the quality journalism aspect of this question?

Information & Ethics committee  The reason we've seen the precipitous decline of the financial viability of the journalism sector as it was previously constructed is that the advertising revenue that it once depended on is gone. That is the reality. If that had led to a fertile digital ecosystem of vibrant digi

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think we should be making regulatory change based on whether the claims of one particular company to do one particular thing using one particular database at one particular moment were effective or not. I think principles, such as the consent and knowability that Ben ju

Information & Ethics committee  I think digital literacy campaigns are incredibly important, but only if done at scale. Who funds that scale? That could be incentivized to the platform companies to put money into that. There's a real government role there, too, for a large-scale digital literacy campaign, not j

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I don't think it's been hacked. I think it's just that the marketplace for our information is structured very differently than it used to be. In that old model, we had all sorts of ways of and mechanisms for limiting and regulating speech during elections, for foreign money

Information & Ethics committee  I have a quick point on trust of information. I think it's pretty clear that trustworthy information that is known by a large number of citizens is critical to a democracy. We have to have some baseline of trustworthy information on which we are making democratic decisions about

Information & Ethics committee  Very briefly, I think Ben Scott and I agree on most of this range of policy responses here, but on this one there might be a bit of distance between us. In the long run I'm not sure we can make that distinction between political and non-political ads in a viable and sustainable w

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.