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It’s The (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech

Zeynep Tufekci Wired
Ist Amendment of the US Constitution engraved on a stone tablet
Many noble old ideas about free speech don’t compute in the age of social media. The notion that a “marketplace of ideas” will elevate the truth is flatly belied by the virality of fake news and the fact that the marketplace is no longer public.