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This is the first episode in a new special series\\u2014"Arbiters of Truth"\\u2014about disinformation and online speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.

From Russian election interference, to scandals over privacy and invasive ad targeting, to presidential tweets: it\\u2019s all happening in online spaces governed by private social media companies. And as the 2020 presidential election draws nearer, these conflicts are only going to grow in importance. In this series, Evelyn Douek, Kate Klonick, Alina Polyakova, and Quinta Jurecic will be talking to experts and practitioners about the major challenges our new information ecosystem poses for elections and democracy in general, and the dangers of finding cures that are worse than the disease.

\\u201cArbiters of Truth\\u201d is a reference to something Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said right after the 2016 election, when Facebook was still reeling from accusations that it hadn\\u2019t done enough to clamp down on disinformation during the presidential campaign. Zuckerberg wrote that social media platforms \\u201cmust be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.\\u201d

Well, if Facebook doesn\\u2019t want to be the arbiter of truth, we\\u2019re here to do it for them. In this episode, the group sat down to talk about their work on disinformation and the main questions that they hope to answer in this podcast over the coming months.

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