More threats to free speech abound. Another Wall
Street Journal editorial, this time about the Honest Ads Act, bipartisan and
sponsored by Mark Warner (D-Va), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John McCain (R-AZ)
would impose new disclaimer and notifications for paid political ads on social
media. The name of any American citizen
sponsoring the ad would have to be published.
There is also a downstream liability issue for political
ads, covered by a 1964 decision New York Times v. Sullivan.
It's good to review the earlier controversy over blogging and campaign finance reform a dozen year ago, here.
The WSJ points out that overall Russian spending on
social media ads was small compared to overall spending. Interesting that on Twitter conspiracy theorists
seem to have fewer followers and follow fewer people.
On P. 6 of the NY Times Sunday review, Dinan Aral (“Gray
Matter’) describes “How lies spread online.”
On the same page, note Zeynep Tufekci, “You Tube, the
Great Radicalizer”.
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