Mara Gay: Companies Like Meta and Twitter Have No Responsibility for Disseminating Misinformation, Hate Speech

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GAY: "You know, Joe, you're making a powerful case here, that the law just -- maybe just is out of date. I mean, listening to you talk about the way you were thinking about it when it was enacted, is reason enough you're right, the Internet has changed, the world has changed, but this is one of those areas of American exceptionalism to where other democracies look at us and say, 'Well, why can't you figure this out?' And one of the reasons is, we actually have a very broad First Amendment statute. And of course, as a journalist, that's wonderful thing. The problem here is that the world has changed, and so to your point, Joe, now you have companies that are actually not journalistic organizations, that are disseminating information, some of it factual, some of it dangerous, some of it hate speech, and they are -- they essentially have no responsibility for the consequences of that. So we have this --"
SCARBOROUGH: "Right."
GAY: "-- central tension. And you know, it's easy to get wonky. We all know what section 230 is here at the table. But, you know, for the Americans sitting at home, the question is, well, what responsibility should YouTube or Google or Facebook have, if they're promoting hate speech on their platforms?”