The State of Online Speech and Governance

Published: March 5, 2019, 2:45 p.m.

b"Professor Jonathan Zittrain discusses the social media giant\\u2019s \\u2018long year\\u2019 with Facebook's head of global policy management Monika Bickert. Citing his sense of the \\u201cpessimism and near-despair that permeate our feelings about social media,\\u201d Zittrain opens the conversation by recalling a September 2017 discussion in which he and Bickert looked at the rise of white nationalism and the first indications of how social media manipulation had been at play in the 2016 elections. Since then, of course, more information about fake accounts and online attacks has come to light.\\n\\nLearn more about this event here:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-12-03/state-online-speech-and-governance"