UK Facebook (and other Electronic Media) Report

The UK released its report on Facebook et al and it did make a splash in the press.  I think the press is missing the point of all of this because they didn't read the report;  they just read the results of the Facebook discussions.  They missed the point:

"This proliferation of online harms is made more dangerous by focussing specific messages on individuals as a result of ‘micro-targeted messaging’—often playing on and distorting people’s negative views of themselves and of others. This distortion is made even more extreme by the use of ‘deepfakes’, audio and videos that look and sound like a real person, saying something that that person has never said. As we said in our Interim Report, these examples will only become more complex and harder to spot, the more sophisticated the software becomes."

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf