Free Speech Matters. So Does DEI.
Preview:
Do those with the biggest megaphones value free speech more than the rest of us? Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg proclaim censorship to be evil, even as the algorithms on the platforms they control filter the voices that we hear. Flooding our consciousness with misinformation is not as bad, they feel, as fact checking that may have biases. Let the people, after the platform has done its filtering, decide what they want to hear! The cure for misinformation will be the wisdom of the crowd correcting falsehoods through the marketplace of ideas. More speech!
Originally published: March 6, 2025
Author: Michael S. Roth
Position: President
Institution: Wesleyan University
Published by: Inside Higher Ed