{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e3852cbdb67c0f94f393857/5e38537d94ec4b4a36d4472d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Social Media's Moral Panic (with Milton Mueller)","description":"<p>As social media platforms grow it is apparent that they will never be able to make decisions that will appease everyone. We should also recognize that calls for government-induced content moderation will make these platforms battlegrounds for a perpetual intensifying conflict over who gets to silence whom.</p><p>What is a moral panic? Why are people panicked over fake news? How addictive is social media? What is Section 230 and what implications does it have for social media companies? What is a social media platform?</p><h2>Further Reading:</h2><p><a href=\"https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/challenging-social-media-moral-panic-preserving-free-expression-under\">Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression under Hypertransparency</a>, written by Milton Mueller</p><p><a href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/false-assumptions-behind-current-drive-regulate-social-media\">False Assumptions Behind the Current Drive to Regulate Social Media</a>, written by John Samples</p><p><a href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/what-senator-hawley-gets-wrong-about-american-identity\">What Senator Hawley Gets Wrong about American Identity</a>, written by Aaron Ross Powell</p><h2>Related Content:</h2><p><a href=\"https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/building-tomorrow/what-made-internet-possible\">What Made the Internet Possible?</a>, Building Tomorrow Podcast</p><p><a href=\"https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/building-tomorrow/free-speech-online-unfriended\">Free Speech Online: Unfriended</a>, Building Tomorrow Podcast</p><p><a href=\"https://www.libertarianism.org/prototype/problem-fake-news\">The Problem with “Fake News”</a>, written by Ryan Khurana</p>","author_name":"Libertarianism.org"}