Democracy ‘may not survive’ fake news onslaught
Facebook tells committee it cannot be ‘truth police for the entire world’
Global democracy may not survive if the power of Silicon Valley continues unchecked, an inquiry into fake news heard in Dublin yesterday.
Carole Cadwalladr, the British author and reporter for The Observer, told theInternational Grand Committee on Disinformation and “Fake News” at Leinster House that misinformation spread via social media had played a decisive role in the Brexit referendum.