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no bull and the aftermath.

You know, the only thing I can say is that we've known for a really long time that when

you build for scale, safety is what is sacrificed in that process.

And so now they have to build for safety.

And they're going to do everything they can to avoid looking at the design of their

products and saying, oh, maybe the openness of our advertising system is a problem.

Or, oh, maybe the way that people take advantage of how easy it is to create accounts.

That's a problem.

Or, oh, maybe if we take a look at how people buy and sell accounts and grow them or sell

clicks, likes and shares, maybe we'll make it harder to do that.

But instead, it's really just about, you know, keeping the reputation of the products

as untarnished as possible.

I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, January 28, 2021.

It's another episode of Arbiters of Truth.

LawFair is mini-series on disinformation and misinformation.

This week, Kate Klonic and I spoke with Joan Donovan, the research director at the

Shore and Steens Center and Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Her work focuses on networked social movements, disinformation and media manipulation.

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