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Harmful Speech And The Covid-19 Penumbra, Kenneth Grad, Amanda Turnbull
Harmful Speech And The Covid-19 Penumbra, Kenneth Grad, Amanda Turnbull
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
We make two central claims in this essay. First, the themes of malinformation have remained remarkably consistent across pandemics. What has changed is only the manner of their spread through evolving technologies and globalization. Thus, as with pandemic preparedness more generally, our failure to take proactive measures reflects a failure to heed the lessons of the past. Second, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to tackle online falsehoods and mitigate their impact in the future.
We proceed in three parts. Part one addresses the harmful speech that inevitably follows in pandemic’s wake. We illustrate this through …