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CNBC reports:
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.
“Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and Donald Trump has invited both,” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”
Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.
Greenwald is flipping out.
This is an awful, authoritarian, unworkable, and censorious proposal from Warren, no matter what her intentions are.
Having the government regulate and criminalize the internet – by deciding what “misinformation” is – is exactly the worst solution to all of these problems. https://t.co/qANK80m4y6
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 29, 2020
If Trump wins again – or even right now – does Warren want to vest his administration with the power to “criminalize” and punish companies that the Trump administration deems have been spreading “disinformation” online?https://t.co/M9YkxaXj7m
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 29, 2020