Matt Mahan

Cambridge Analytica, being an example of a firm that scraped a bunch of data, used it in ways people weren't aware of, and I believe they were fined $5 billion, and that's appropriate.

There ought to be serious law enforcement around

the regulations we've put in place around personally identifying information, PII.

There's a whole body of law around that that needs to be enforced by regulators, and that has to be done.

When it comes to the echo chambers of social media, you start to get into a difficult place.

And I think it's important to be skeptical and to think about, but you also don't want to impose on people's

One of the things that is interesting is the crowdsourcing of community notes on X where somebody can actually say, well, this is not the whole story.

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And so I think there's kind of this evolving space of how do we actually deal with misinformation?

And that's a harder one because –

And what you call misinformation may be somebody else saying, well, that's my opinion.

And so it becomes hard to police the truth.

And I think there are limits there to what government or technology can do in ensuring that what people are saying is truthful and accurate.

At some point here, you said a regulatory environment that needs to be enforced.

The Cambridge Analyticas of the world need to be sued and held accountable.

Sure.

maybe criminally liable.

But at some point, it's also up to us to think through our public education system about media literacy, critical thinking, training and teaching people so that they don't just passively hear something and think, oh, that must be true.

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