Opinion: Technology, once thought the enabler of democracy, is threatening to kill it off
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 07:02
in Mathematics & Economics
Democracy has entered a new phase marked by hacking by foreign states and fake stories shared on social media aimed at damaging political parties. The social media companies have so far been mostly incapable, or unwilling, to do anything about the fact that a large part of the dissemination of this "fake news" has been through automated software programs posting on Twitter.