Getting it Right: What Obligations Do New Media Have in the Search for Truth‪?‬ Legal Frontiers in Digital Media

This session will look at how the mainstream media and journalists have reacted to the lightning-fast pace of information (and often, misinformation) spread on social media platforms, and explore the way forward for journalism in this environment. The panel will explore such questions as: Should social media sites be proactive (or reactive) in policing their content for deliberatively false information? Are the pressures of being timely in an instantaneous age of mass communications compelling traditional journalists to take risks that in the past they would not take? How do lawyers and editors at entities in the hot seat of breaking news (which might or might not be correct) separate the wheat from the chaff?