Is Repealing Section 230 the Way to Fix Facebook? Exchange with Siva Vaidhyanathan

This is the first part of a four part exchange with Siva Vaidhyanthan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Vaidhyanathan will write a response. I will then draft a rejoinder and he will get the last word.

 

Repeal Section 230 to Fix Facebook

Many people are worried that Facebook is playing the same role in the 2020 election that it did in the 2016 election, acting as a conduit for massive amounts of false and misleading information. They hope that Mark Zuckerber...