New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s call for greater social media oversight to prevent “misinformation” and “radicalisation” is very dangerous, according to a think tank director.
On Friday, Ardern’s Harvard keynote speech identified social media as a threat to democracy, calling on tech giants to work with governments to do more to address misinformation.
Muriel Newman, a former New Zealand MP and director of the New Zealand Centre of Political Research, told The Epoch Times that Ardern’s government has increasingly exerted its influence on social media in the past couple of years.
With censorship becoming a significant issue, Newman noted that social media giants that had been created out of a desire for free speech had come under increasing pressure to “back government narratives.”…