Platform liability, not competition law, fixes public-sphere damage.

Evidence

But competition law is the wrong lever if one’s aim is to correct the fundamental flaw that platforms, unlike traditional media, do not want to accept liability for the dissemination of truth-sensitive, and hence deception-prone, communicative contents. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 48

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s interest in how deliberative conditions produce legitimation — here Habermas diagnoses the mechanism by which platform design corrodes them. — connects to: Social media platforms simulate a public sphere they now merely exploit. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 580

Related

• Social media platforms simulate a public sphere they now merely exploit. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Social media platforms simulate a public sphere they now merely exploit. #expands (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 580