More and more governments are rushing to confront the dangers posed by Facebook, Google, Netflix and other digital giants. In that 2016 election, incendiary Russian posts reached 126 million users on Facebook; 131,000 messages were published on Twitter, and more than 1,000 videos were uploaded to YouTube. But Trudeau and his ministers have been satisfied meeting his minions informally, trying to coax favours out of them. While Facebook, Google, YouTube, Reddit and others have broadened the public square, paradoxically they’ve also made us anti-social, indeed tribal. Last fall, Trudeau was said to have warned Facebook to fix its fake-news problem or face undefined repercussions.

Source: thestar April 07, 2018 11:36 UTC