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After participating in the UNESCO conference on “Internet for Trust” and meeting various experts on tech policy last week in Paris, I came away more convinced that there is likely never going to be one big global regulator or common regulatory scheme that will save democracies from the negative effects of social media.
UNESCO gathered an extraordinary group of experts, government officials, members of civil society and whistleblowers from all over the world to discuss the health of the information ecosystem, and to review a set of draft global guidelines for regulating digital platforms. But while it was edifying to meet Facebook whistleblower Daniel Motaung and his colleagues from The Signals Network, and to hear from Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Brazilian journalist Patricia Campos Mello onstage, the range of views expressed made it clear how vast the differences are between countries.
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