Twitter, Facebook are best-suited to ID and defend against bad actors

Timothy Carone, associate teaching professor in Mendoza College of Business, wrote a piece for the San Francisco Chronicle on the role of social media platforms owners in preventing future foreign interference in U.S. elections.

There is a myth that Silicon Valley companies encourage and support continually: We are the smartest people on the planet and you need to use our superior technology platforms. I have attended conferences with the Silicon Valley leaders, and their hubris at times is cringe-worthy. The key problem is that these platform owners do not fully understand how the rest of the planet will use them.