We're suffering from "information disorder," according to a *report <https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/commission-on-information-disorder-final-report/>* recently
issued through the Aspen Institute. That's not news. But how to solve
this problem is the big issue, and the commission's answer is that it
will require substantial legal changes, as well as action by platforms, professionals, and academics.
Legal responses to our disinformation pandemic are controversial.
Traditional free speech advocates balk at speech restrictions based on undesirable content, and partisans on both the right and left worry that
new laws will inhibit the content they want.