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<div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>The Institute for Ethics in Public Life Presents "How should social media be regulated?" a hybrid forum at 3:30pm on Wednesday, April 24. Please join us in-person at the Institute (Hawkins 233) or via Zoom (see below) for this discussion.<br></b></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">With Dr. Ben Medeiros, of the Communications Studies
Department. <br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"><br></div>
<span>On April 20, as part of the bills passed by the House
providing aid to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Taiwan there was also a
requirement that TikTok be sold or shut down within nine months. While
there is no guarantee that particular policy will make it to President
Biden's desk for signature, it is still a significant step towards more
regulation of social media. That also is only one of many recent efforts
to regulate social media in the United States and in Europe. While
efforts to regulate social media platforms in the U..S. have been
limited due to the Constitutional protections for speech and the press
found in the First Amendment, <font>there are still steps that platforms
can take voluntarily, and courts have entertained the possibility that
platforms can be forced to reveal or even change the way that they
recommend content to users and make content moderation decisions.</font>Beyond
that, though, our question for this discussion is not whether we can
regulate social media, but whether we should, and how.<br></span>
<br><span>Social
media is blamed for a variety of ills including contributing to the rise
in diagnosed mental illness among young people observed in recent
years, undermining our ability to focus, violating our privacy, and
spreading extremism, misinformation, and disinformation.</span><br><span></span><br><span>This
forum will examine various issues associated with social media and
consider ways those could be addressed through regulation if
Constitutional concerns could be addressed.</span><span><br></span>Daniel Lake is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.<br><br>Topic: Institute Forum on Regulating Social Media<br>Time: Apr 24, 2024 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)<br><br>Join Zoom Meeting<br><a href="https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/91516377402" target="_blank">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/91516377402</a>
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