Public Hearing Audience publique - Commissioner / Commissaire The Honourable / L’honorable

18 So speaking first to law and statutory 19 regulation, I would say -- so this would cover any statutes and 20 laws that govern social media content and related activity, so 21 behaviour and actors that are related to the generation of 22 content and its moderation and editing and regulation on social 23 media platforms and services, for example. [...] ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 24 MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND THE ROLE OF SOCIA MEDIA 1 think about to open up this discussion is what is this in law? 2 What laws regulate mis and disinformation, and what is the 3 tension there with the right to freedom of expression? 4 So I was just talking about laws that, you know, 5 that are being explored to target social media, but the laws 6 that target mis a. [...] 17 There is also a growing body of work in the area 18 of the right to freedom of opinion, and that the recommender 19 systems and the advertising push to users is in fact infringing 20 on the right to form an opinion free from manipulation. [...] 23 I'd say that there is two things I want us to 24 think about as we have a discussion here, is one would be what 25 are the laws that apply to individuals, the ones that are 26 posting the particular information and engaging in certain 27 conduct that may or may not be lawful or falls into the category 28 of the lawful but awful? And the other would be what are the INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC. [...] ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 35 MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND THE ROLE OF SOCIA MEDIA 1 because of the sheer volume and the kind of equitable access on 2 social media is that the opportunities to dehumanize and harm 3 other individuals is made that much easier.