Nikki Haley’s Plan for Managing the Future of Social Media in America

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said that if she becomes president, the first thing she’ll do is make social media platforms show their algorithms. “Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing,” she said. After that, she is going to ban anonymous posting on social media. She called it a national security threat. “When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and… then you’re going to get some civility when people know their name is next to [it].”

I’ve had that same thought many times, and had mentally filed Haley’s idea as “maybe a good one” until I came across this tweet in response from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: “You know who were anonymous writers back in the day? Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison when they wrote The Federalist Papers.” He called Haley’s proposal “dangerous and unconstitutional.”

“Yeah,” he’s right,” I thought. “What was I thinking?”

A few days later, I read this.