Commentary: Social media regulation should protect users, not push them out

‘Self-regulation has proven a failure’: Brazilian leaders defend the need for social media regulation

RIO DE JANEIRO — Regulating misinformation on social media platforms is not an attack on the freedom of speech. That’s the message three high-ranking Brazilian officials shared with fact-checkers from […] The post ‘Self-regulation has proven a failure’: Brazilian leaders defend the need for social media regulation appeared first on Poynter.

Commentary: Social media regulation should protect users, not push them out

Social media regulation is necessary. But it has to be targeted, not sweeping; responsive to real harm, not preoccupied with suspicion, says the Institute of Policy Studies’ Chew Han Ei.