What Can Prewar Germany Teach Us About Social-Media Regulation?

“Our way of taking power and using it would have been inconceivable without the radio and the airplane,” Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels claimed in August 1933. Goebbels was not saying that the Nazis had used both new technologies, the airplane and the radio, to come to power. The history of radio, and in particular how it was regulated in interwar Germany, is more relevant than ever: Five years ago, the question was whether we would regulate social media.

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