What happens to a generation raised in a world where misinformation is criminalized? Does critical thinking lapse? Do people just assume all published works are authoritative by definition? Not an experiment i’d care to see played out.<p>The current fake news tug-o-war might actually make citizens more scrutinizing of their news, not less.
The actual report by the UK Parliament is here:<p><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcu...</a><p>The "list or conclusions and recommendations" on pages 89-98 are worth studying though, see:<p><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/179112.htm#_idTextAnchor082" rel="nofollow">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcu...</a><p>Now provided we agree that regulation is the correct way to solve this, why not regulate instead AdTech? This seems to address the root of the problem, rather than trusting AI will fix it (as is the promise by the big players) and forcing everyone else (whoever is left on the free web ... and running on old stacks like phpforum for a fringe community ... OR those who aren't convinced that AI is a solution) to burden them with <i>what looks like</i> a "Ministry of Truth" type of regulatory body. These might as well just take down the community/service (because it never made money anyway and now it's just too much of a burden).
I'm more concerned about government intervention into speech and policing what is appropriate than I am fake news, which a recent study showed wasn't even that widespread.