July 11, 2023: Karl Bode, TechDirt on petition

On July 11, 2023, Karl Bode of the TechDirt blog said that the MAD petition might help nudge the nation forward in combating media disinformation.

“It’s not really clear how broken the propaganda-polluted U.S. information economy, journalism, and democracy itself has to get before an intelligent, solution-oriented consensus on what to do about it actually forms,” Bode writes.

But “In an environment when the conversations generally focus on what’s not possible and the end result is no action whatsoever, I’m less inclined to be bothered when groups like MAD try something creative, even (and maybe especially) if success is unlikely. At least it builds public awareness that there’s a problem, and generates a conversation about what we might try instead.”

This TechDirt post can be found here.