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Lawfare Archive: Nate Persily Asks Whether Democracy Can Survive the Internet

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Rise of WhatsApp and the Importance of Perceptions

Facebook is the main way that certain users in African countries actually gain access to the internet. In some places, it's really almost a total monopoly of the online world. WhatsApp is in many ways a more important platform than Facebook itself or even Google. So you've got, you know, whether it's hate speech or threats or disinformation, we're seeing it on these encrypted platforms as well.

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