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Social Media and Censorship

Francis Fukuyama

The idea that the big internet platforms are not media companies has never really been tenable, and the contradictions in their public protestations of neutrality have become ever more apparent over time.

Published on: August 8, 2018

Francis Fukuyama is co-director of the Project on Democracy and the Internet at Stanford and a member of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy. He is also chairman of the editorial board of The American Interest.