Unresolved: Information Disorder
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Join in every sip with Red Carps Now Back at Starbucks. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome everybody to an Intelligent Squared program that we are calling Unresolved Information Disorder |
| 0:42.0 | because as we all know we are living in a time that is uniquely exposed to the perils of disinformation |
| 0:47.0 | which certainly makes it timely to hold a debate asking what should be done about it |
| 0:52.0 | and because at times disinformation is a national security threat we are delighted to be holding this debate in partnership |
| 0:59.0 | with the Homeland Security Expert Group, a whole audience of experts that is really something |
| 1:04.0 | and of course we have the experts on our stage. In this debate we are going to be working through three questions |
| 1:10.0 | one at a time and what we would like to do now is to ask you your opinion on these questions. |
| 1:17.0 | The three questions we are going to be looking at are should tech companies moderate misinformation that their users post |
| 1:25.0 | does American need a governing body to regulate this information and finally was Twitter right to ban Donald Trump? |
| 1:32.0 | I want to say now let's welcome our debaters to the stage. |
| 1:35.0 | First, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security and co-author of the Patriot Act, Michael Chertoff. |
| 1:42.0 | Next, internationally recognized expert on disinformation and democratization and author of How to Lose the Information War, Nina Jankowitz. |
| 1:56.0 | Now please welcome Principal at Cornerstone Government Affairs, Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute, |
| 2:07.0 | former staff member on House Committee of Homeland Security and Georgetown University Professor Charles Carothers. |
| 2:19.0 | And finally former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, Stuart Baker. |
| 2:32.0 | So let's get to the debate. We're going to go through three questions and our first of three questions is this. |
| 2:38.0 | Should tech companies moderate misinformation that their users post? Let's see where each of you is going to argue on this. |
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