This article argues that social-media companies should eliminate misinformation, highlighting its harms and duty of care.
The goal of this article is to argue that social-media companies ought to remove misinformation from their platforms. I begin by outlining four kinds of harms that misinformation can produce. In the following section, I clarify the conceptual foundations of this duty, including the difference between purposeful and general social-media sites, influenced by Lavinia Marin’s recent research, and the correct characterization of online debates about topics such as climate change and vaccination.
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