Have sites like YouTube and Facebook made sharing ideas too accessible? The internet promised to democratize publishing, but have they really encouraged misinformation, extremism, and conspiracy? Lou examines public discourse in the YouTube era.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Klonick on “The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech”
https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/...

Napoli on “What If More Speech Is No Longer the Solution? First Amendment Theory Meets Fake News and the Filter Bubble”
http://www.fclj.org/wp-content/upload...

Barrett on “Tackling Domestic Disinformation: What the Social Media Companies Need to Do” https://issuu.com/nyusterncenterforbu...

Lidsky on “Nobody’s Fools: The Rational Audience as First Amendment Ideal” https://illinoislawreview.org/wp-cont...

Wall Street Journal Investigation – “How YouTube Drives People to the Internet’s Darkest Corners”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-yout...

NYT Opinion piece “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/op...


CREDITS
Producer: Louis Foglia
Editor: Page Ellerson
Researcher: Dushyant Naresh
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown

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