January 18, 2021

Forum Podcast – “Free Speech on Social Media” – with Roddy Lindsay and Victor Menaldo

Guest: Roddy Lindsay, CEO of Hustle and opinion columnist at The Information, Professor Victor Menaldo, from the Political Science Department at the University of Washington.

 

In this episode, Professor Victor Menaldo and Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock host Roddy Lindsay to debate the impact of Twitter’s move to ban President Trump on free speech. They also discuss potential reform to Section 230 and the potential dangers of algorithmically amplified speech online.

 

Related work and links mentioned in the podcast:

Roddy Lindsay: To Fix Section 230 – target algorithmic amplification

Victor Menaldo and James Long: Trump’s Threats to Democracy May Endure

Jeff Kosseff: The Twenty-six Words That Created The Internet

 

 

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