question archive a) Explain how Western (especially American) jurisprudence, law, and public policy have traditionally dealt with the problem of fake news [worth 3 marks]
a) Explain how Western (especially American) jurisprudence, law, and public policy have traditionally dealt with the problem of fake news [worth 3 marks]
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a) Explain how Western (especially American) jurisprudence, law, and
public policy have traditionally dealt with the problem of fake news [worth 3 marks].
b) Then describe some of the challenges that social media have presented to this traditional solution, and how platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are exacerbating the problem of fake news and disinformation [worth 3 marks].
c) Do you agree that social media companies like Facebook and Twitter need to be more proactive and aggressive in addressing the epidemic of fake news on their platforms? Or would more restricting the kind of news that people can share on these platforms be a cure worse than the disease, limiting freedom of expression to an unacceptable degree [worth 3 marks]?
