COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 15/08/2018
Mathew Ingram
Whether giant social platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter should filter (or censor) content on their networks is the subject of much debate, thanks in part to notorious conspiracy theorist and nutritional supplement-peddler Alex Jones of Infowars, who has seen his video diatribes and pages removed by YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, and Pinterest, but not by Twitter. In that context, a look at public attitudes towards such behavior seems particularly timely, and that’s exactly what the Knight Foundation and Gallup have come up with in a study published this morning.