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Joan Friedman (MA, from NY)'s avatar

All right. Do you think the use of social media to flood the country with lies is just fine and dandy? If not, do you like the default condition of it being up to media CEO's to decide what is acceptable? They coddled trump's dangerous lies for a long time, only stopping after the assault on the Capitol. If you think some kind of updated Fairness Doctrine - which worked quite well in its day - is impossible to achieve in a good way, what do you think is the best way to pull this country out of its divided silos?

Both cable news and social media, along with their virtues, have been instruments of pushing this country into extreme ideas and political tribalism. It's a real problem. The point of updating the Fairness Doctrine would be to address that. Do you have some other ideas on how to do it?

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