The Internet's Challenge to Democracy: Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms

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Written by Nathaniel Persily 11 March 2019

This paper examines how “concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself” wherein “democracies pay a price for internet freedom...in the form of disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections” and face economic challenges” (Persily, 2019).

Publisher: Stanford Centre of Philanthropy and Civil Society

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Categories: Paper, Media and technology, Tools of Democracy