Get the DealBook newsletter to make sense of major business and policy headlines — and the power-brokers who shape them. The office of Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has written a paper outlining potential policies to regulate social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The suggestions made by Mr. Warner’s office aim to address how privacy, competition and public discourse are being affected by the misuse of those companies’ services. The existence of the paper was first reported by Axios and confirmed by The New York Times. In Britain, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee also has published a report that provided the government with recommendations about how to achieve similar results.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2018 21:22 UTC