Free Market, Free Speech, and the Suppression of Debate

This chapter discusses the tensions and trade-offs between supporting free expression and addressing misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms. It highlights the problematic actions taken by someone who acquired Twitter, such as firing staff, deleting accounts of journalists, and promoting conspiracists and white supremacists. The chapter then shifts to the topic of COVID, where the speaker expresses becoming less worried about the virus after vaccines arrived, but more concerned about the social pathologies and the failure of society to come together in response to the pandemic. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the need to improve our response to pandemics in general.