The scourge of disinformation associated with the 2016 election was just the tip of the iceberg compared to what we’ll see in 2020, panelists predicted at a Johns Hopkins University forum on Tuesday.
“It’s going to be a complete mess this election cycle,” Politico reporter Nancy Scola said of the social media forces at play internationally and domestically in politics.
The journalists and scholars who convened for Tuesday’s roundtable warned that the big tech platforms—Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter—aren’t prepared to handle that mess.
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Source: Digital disinformation and the 2020 election: ‘It’s going to be a complete mess’ | The Hub
