In contrast to his assessment, the report's weakness in speaking directly to any link between big tech platforms and disinformation does look pretty gaping.
He ends by suggesting there should be discussions between major tech platforms and services companies, such as Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, to try to find a common framework for content restrictions.
The evaluation also points to ongoing discrepancies between tech platforms in their feedback systems for users who report content — with only Facebook sending "systematic feedback" to inform a person how their notification has been assessed.
The evaluation also points to ongoing discrepancies between tech platforms in their feedback systems for users who report content — with only Facebook sending "systematic feedback" to inform a person how their notification has been assessed.
Also today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, published an open letter warning that disinformation threatens the social utility of the web, and making the case for a direct causal link between a few "powerful" big tech platforms and false information being accelerated damagingly online.
"We are seeing and hearing that cities get that this isn't about high-tech platforms and big IT buys.
This would enable the whole ecosystem to establish a robust framework for data-sharing between ad tech platforms, mitigating the complexity of the ecosystem and facilitating faster and more efficient measures against known bad actors.
It is also crediting the code with helping foster partnerships between civil society organisations, national authorities and tech platforms — on key issues such as awareness raising and education activities.
Instead, white supremacy is being mainstreamed, and media outlets ― liberal and conservative ― and tech platforms are helping.
