1. Protect Speech on Social Media - No corporate entity should be allowed to censor information unless it is in violation of the law. If people could post without fear of censorship, the dialogue would be much more balanced and less biased toward the ideological preferences of Silicon Valley
2. Ban Algorithms which prioritize content based on engagement - Facebooks 2018 Algorithmic change radicalized politics since in order to win in this information ecosystem, parties had to adopt more radical agendas and take up more extreme positions
3. Get our government to put R&D into developing a bias-detection infrastructure which compliments our informational one - This invention would use language-analysis and machine-learning to let users know the political direction the language of the article was pushing the reader towards. By developing and heavily marketing this invention, this could lead to mass adoption which would moderate our polarized dialogue.
4. Sue Establishment Media for anti-competitive practices - It is well known that the media has been in a long-term decline for a while now. Due to this, they've been becoming more aggressive and hostile toward non-establishment competitors such as YouTube which are massively disrupting the market. If we appointed a DOJ and got tough on these media practices, the media companies would act in less predatory ways. This would infuse more competition into the media space which would lead to higher quality news.
5. Actively fight ideological echo-chambers in academia - The government should boost the number of conservative professors in academia by giving them preferential treatment in the hiring process. This isn't because a professor with a left-wing viewpoint is a bad one, but because an environment which overrepresents a particular view generates dogmas that make people more close minded, less tolerant of differing opinions, and more unaware of the biases and potential misconceptions of their own worldview. This problem is so bad in academia that with the exception of economics, the entirety of the social sciences does not have a ratio of conservatives relative to liberals that creates intellectually healthy and rigorous environments.
6. Actively fight ideologically echo-chambers Online - This is a regurgitation of point 5 but for the social media sphere. As it currently stands, algorithms are designed to show you what you want to see rather based on past likes and dislikes. This has created ideological echo chambers in the digital world which has fueled the ideological divide and led to increased radicalization on both sides.
So there ya go! Cut down on echo chambers, go after anti-competitive media practices, protect free spech online, ban algorithms which prioritizes engagement, and get the government to invest in an invention which creates a bias detection infrastructure for our informational one. All of this should signifigiantly improve the marketplace of ideas and create a more healthy environment.
