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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett analyzes how Big Tech has responded to misinformation around the coronavirus
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Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "The push shows how much the platforms can do when they pull out all the stops, according to scholars who study the subject—going far beyond their efforts leading up to the 2016 election, when political misinformation became a prominent issue, and in the years since. But it also reveals some inherent limitations to fighting bad information, even with Big Tech’s vast resources. 'They’ve definitely been more aggressive in responding to the coronavirus crisis than they have been in going after political misinformation,' says Paul Barrett."
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