The Future of India Foundation on Thursday released a report, “Politics of Disinformation”, which recommended a comprehensive transparency law and a regulator under parliamentary oversight for social media platforms.
Ruchi Gupta, co-founder and director of the Foundation, said disinformation was a political problem and that any way forward should be located within the bipartisan democratic political process.
As long as amplification of content was driven by engagement instead of the quality of content or trustworthiness of content sources, the current content-moderation driven approach to disinformation by all major social media platforms would not stop the spread of misinformation. The platforms should either stop amplification and revert to chronological feed or take ownership of their distribution choices, said the Foundation.
