Dangerous Knowledge
We live in a time of information abundance, and with explosive growth in mobile internet access, more Indians have access to more information than in any point in history. With an estimated over two billion websites, search engines to find them, billions of users of social media and messaging applications, and several billion videos hosted on video-sharing sites, Indians who are online have access to an amount and variety of information that was unthinkable in a pre-digital age.
The problem is that much of that information is crap, that some of it is outright dangerous for both individual citizens and society at large, and that the platforms we rely on to find the islands of information in this ocean of crap struggle to protect their users from abuse and sometimes seem to not just enable, but amplify, problematic content and behaviour.
This development leaves hundreds of millions of Indian citizens better off in terms of
