Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Conspiracy theories are spreading on social media platforms, and algorithms promoting engagement may contribute to the problem. This article offers a public policy option promising reasonable incentives for social media companies and users to restrain our natural attraction to conspiracy theories. Under this proposed policy, unique defamation lawsuits targeting online falsehoods could result […]
This paper addresses questions in contemporary deradicalization efforts by focusing on three social segments of a particular society; the radicalized, the nonradicalized youth, and the host communities. In all these questions, the central themes of deradicalization and counterradicalization are envisioned in a spectrum of community-oriented programs, projects, and activities. The article uses these terminologies as […]