Dr. Karlin Lillington:

I would like to make a quick point that we need to recognise that democracy, as a global aspiration, will be undermined when the political leaders of the countries that are supposed to be the central democracies are themselves using social media to lie, spread disinformation and question and undermine elections. That emboldens and gives comfort to the dictators and autocrats in the most repressive nations and undermines activists. We are leaching our own democracies of any moral authority. I know this is a broader social issue that goes beyond concern about the platforms. However, these problems are tied together and this is something to think about.