{"id":133773,"date":"2022-11-21T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=133773"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:21:58","slug":"does-twitter-under-elon-musk-need-government-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2022\/11\/21\/does-twitter-under-elon-musk-need-government-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Twitter, under Elon Musk, Need Government Regulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115576\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/03\/stringhini.profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-115576\" width=\"306\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/03\/stringhini.profile.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/03\/stringhini.profile-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/03\/stringhini.profile-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/03\/stringhini.profile-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/03\/stringhini.profile-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gianluca Stringhini (ECE)<br \/><em>Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>\u201cP<span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">latforms should self-police and enforce their own terms of service<\/span><\/strong><strong>,\u201d says ENG expert. <\/strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">When this doesn\u2019t happen, the platform stops being useful to legitimate users<\/span>.<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/do-elon-musk-and-twitter-need-government-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rich Barlow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFix your companies. Or Congress will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) minced no words in his tweet to Elon Musk after revelations that the billionaire\u2019s latest acquisition, Twitter, may not be able to police disinformation. The most serious breach occurred when Twitter greenlighted a blue check mark of authenticity for an impostor posing as drugmaker Eli Lilly, who tweeted, \u201cWe are excited to announce insulin is free now.\u201d That fake news was retweeted thousands of times.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure last year to adopt stricter controls, Twitter removed tens of thousands of QAnon-associated accounts and banned former president Donald Trump for incendiary insurrection-related tweets. With Musk\u2019s takeover, followed by mass firings and resignations at the company, is Markey (Hon.\u201904) right that government may have to step in? And how, without violating free speech?<\/p>\n<p><em>BU Today<\/em> asked two Boston University experts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/gianluca-stringhini-ph-d\/\">Gianluca Stringhini<\/a>, a College of Engineering assistant professor of electrical and computing engineering, who studies mitigation of disinformation and other online maliciousness, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/t-barton-carter\/\">T. Barton Carter<\/a>, a College of Communication professor of media science and an expert in communication law and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/do-elon-musk-and-twitter-need-government-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q&amp;A on <em>BU Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlatforms should self-police and enforce their own terms of service,\u201d says ENG expert. \u201cWhen this doesn\u2019t happen, the platform stops being useful to legitimate users.\u201d By Rich Barlow \u201cFix your companies. Or Congress will.\u201d Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) minced no words in his tweet to Elon Musk after revelations that the billionaire\u2019s latest acquisition, Twitter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":115578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,907,1],"tags":[734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133784,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133773\/revisions\/133784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}