With Greater Audience Comes Greater Responsibility (and a request for papers)

Editor’s Note:  Requiring those with large numbers of social media followers to have some training on mis- and dis-information?  A proposal in the below paper fleshes out this idea.  If you have another idea, Carnegie is asking for papers which you can read about here.

A proposal in a paper written for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

Training people who have influence how to wield it, perhaps through a system of licensing, could raise digital literacy and establish reasons to de-platform violators.

Read the whole thing here:

https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/04/23/with-greater-audience-comes-greater-responsibility-pub-81582