On Point: Can Digital Disinformation Be Disarmed? by Kelly Born

Kelly Born surveys the options for reforming an increasingly dangerous social-media ecosystem. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( JANUARY 29, 2021 In today's toxic, polarized, post-truth political environment, the leading social-media platforms are the 800-pound gorillas in the room. But while there are numerous ideas for how best to tame the beast, writes Kelly Born, a program officer for the Madison Initiative at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, there is no silver bullet. [Read more](. On Point: Long Read [Can Digital Disinformation Be Disarmed?]( [Can Digital Disinformation Be Disarmed?]( By Kelly Born With its growing impact on real-world events, online disinformation is not a problem that any society can afford to ignore. But because the problem touches on such a wide range of policy issues, economic sectors, and fundamental democratic principles, it will not be solved with just one policy or approach. [Read more]( [Register now to attend our virtual session of The Davos Agenda, Grassroots Globalization.]( The Big Picture [Africa’s Opportunity]( [Africa’s Opportunity]( Featuring Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Carlos Lopes, Célestin Monga, and more Rich-country governments, desperate to revive their economies, are pursuing vaccine nationalism and turning their backs on the developing world. But a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous Africa is in their interests, too, and can be achieved by implementing the vision and policies needed to boost the continent’s global standing and economic prospects. [Read more]( The Year Ahead magazine [Latin America’s Pandemic of Woe]( [Latin America’s Pandemic of Woe]( By Mauricio Cárdenas, Eduardo Levy Yeyati, and Andrés Velasco If Latin America’s COVID-19 public-health shock is followed by a protracted economic crisis that leaves many people behind, trust in government and institutions will suffer, and politics will become even more fractured. In that case, the region could yet face a pandemic of instability and hopelessness. [Read more]( Say More [An Interview with Raghuram G. Rajan]( [An Interview with Raghuram G. Rajan]( Rajan – a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business – identifies economic-policy priorities for Joe Biden’s administration, highlights rising monetary-policy risks, and suggests how to prevent a “doom loop” of crises. [Read more]( Previously in On Point [History at the Barricades]( [History at the Barricades]( By Robert Skidelsky History has always been a mixture of fact and value, and the interpretation of the past has never stopped shifting in line with current preoccupations. But what the West’s history-fueled culture war reflects most dramatically is the ongoing power shift from Western to non-Western civilizations. [Read more]( [PS. Subscribe now and receive a copy of The Year Ahead 2021]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.