Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies need to be treated like Big Tobacco

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay. Article by Joan Donovan, research director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, and Jennifer Nilsen, research fellow at the Shorenstein Center. NBC News – The Think – July 15, 2021.

The surgeon general’s new advisory shows their product is in need of serious consumer protection regulations.

Thursday marks a turning point in internet history. For the first time, the U.S. surgeon general has declared the barrage of misinformation spreading on social media a public health hazard. In an advisory, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy calls on technology companies to “take responsibility for addressing the harms” […]

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