ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gilad Abiri

Gilad Abiri is an Assistant Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law, where he also co-directs the Program for Technology and Transnational Legal Challenges. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

POSTS BY Gilad Abiri

12 May 2022

The War in Ukraine, Fake News, and the Digital Epistemic Divide

The ongoing war in Ukraine sheds light on crucial challenges of our digital media landscape. The social media-driven “(mis)information wars” surrounding the Russian invasion expose a growing epistemic divide running through liberal democracies. The regulatory focus on truth, with measures like fact-checking, serves little to cure the larger problems behind this. We should rather use the power of the law to devise new modes of intelligent speech regulation mimicking the functions formerly played by the centralized set-up of communication conditions. Continue reading >>