Just two weeks later we were in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, on a trip that had been months in the making. New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who had handled the shock and crisis with extraordinary judgment and grace, had given a speech that captured a marked shift toward social media. “We cannot simply sit back and accept that these platforms just exist and that what is said on them is not the responsibility of the place where they are published,” she said.19 She then referred to social media sites even more emphatically, “They are the publisher, not just the postman. It
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