… Congress should appropriate money now to fund an independent, nonpartisan task force to study the effects of Russian electoral interference in the 2020 election. …
The American public deserves to know whether Russia’s election interference operation might actually alter election outcomes. If not, any federal regulation of social media platforms designed to combat Russian interference should be executed with a light touch that merely tinkers at the margins. Conversely, if the evidence establishes a significant probability that Russian interference did or could alter election outcomes, Congress would be justified in enacting more intrusive regulations.
Either way, the first step is to collect better data. CONT.
David Sloss (Santa Clara U.), The Hill