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Free Speech in the Digital Town Square

Donald Trump has recently accused Google of using its vast digital reach to quash conservative voices online. It denied this, claiming that the search engine algorithms are simply doing their job, but the president is not alone in voicing concerns that tech companies are increasingly being called on to be arbiters of free speech and what constitutes acceptable comment.
Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship, and broadcaster and professor of television journalism at City University London, Stewart Purvis, discuss the issue.

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