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Quiz: Regulating Tech Companies

September 6, 2019

Another day, another controversy about online platforms like Facebook and Twitter. How much do you know about the debate over regulating tech companies?

Cloudflare, which terminated 8chan as a customer after its ties to the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, previously made headlines when it terminated The Daily Stormer, a website aimed at whom?*
- Flat earth conspiracy theorists
- Neo-Nazis
- Democracy activists in China
- Anarchists
Stressing that it was merely a platform for connecting people around the world, Facebook originally pitched itself as a:*
- Message board
- Dating site
- Utility
- Social network for college students
In 2016, Facebook apologized to the prime minister of Norway for deleting which of the following?*
- An educational video on breastfeeding
- Photographs of mass shooting victims
- Images of a statue by artist Damien Hirst
- A photo of a girl fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which Congress wrote in 1996, said that tech companies could not be sued for content on their platforms. Congress amended that law in 2018, however, to crack down on:*
- Hate speech
- Child sex trafficking
- Drug trafficking
- All of the above
In an August 2019 poll, a significant majority of Americans said they wanted an increase in government regulation of big tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.*
- True
- False
In January 2019, Facebook and Twitter announced that they had purged hundreds of accounts responsible for misinformation campaigns that were linked to:*
- Russia
- Venezuela
- Iran
- All of the above
Texas Senator Ted Cruz has accused social media platforms of what kind of bias?*
- Anti-conservative bias
- Anti-Christian bias
- Anti-male bias
- Anti-American bias
In October 2018, Twitter released a massive trove of data demonstrating that the Russian misinformation campaign during the 2016 presidential election was far more extensive than U.S. officials originally realized. The data set included 3,900 suspended accounts and how many individual tweets?*
- 500,000
- 1 million
- 5 million
- 10 million
About two thirds of adults in the U.S. say they get news from social media, and 57 percent of them expect that news to be:*
- Largely accurate
- Somewhat accurate
- Somewhat inaccurate
- Largely inaccurate
Approximately what portion of social media users have changed their minds about a political issue because of something they saw on social media?*
- 3 percent
- 20 percent
- 35 percent
- 50 percent

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