Biden just endorsed destroying social media as we know it

Published January 17, 2020 8:23pm ET



Joe Biden’s threat to revoke liability protections for social media companies in the name of combating “fake news” should concern us all.

In an interview with the New York Times, the 2020 front-runner endorsed the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which ensures that users and not the platform itself are legally responsible for what they post on social media websites.

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