Fighting online misinformation in Finland--successfully

[wisewomn]

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy

“Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube … who are enablers of Russian trolls … they really should be regulated,” said Jessikka Aro, a journalist with Finland’s public broadcaster YLE, who has faced a barrage of abuse for her work investigating Russian interference, long before it was linked to the 2016 US elections.

“Just like any polluting companies or factories should be and are already regulated, for polluting the air and the forests, the waters, these companies are polluting the minds of people. So, they also have to pay for it and take responsibility for it.”

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019...ake-news-intl/