Governments should avoid heavy-handed regulation of Facebook, Google and other social-media giants as a response to recent scandals about how their platforms have been used to interfere in political campaigns, a former editor of the British newspaper the Guardian has said. Governments should instead encourage the companies to become more open and transparent, Alan Rusbridger told The Irish Times. I wish people would just stop saying that social media is crap. He believes many in the industry have yet to fully grasp the threat posed by social media and digital publishing. “What can I do that social media isn’t doing?

Source: The Irish Times May 13, 2018 15:56 UTC