The government cannot determine what information is visible on social media. However, this does not mean that there is no role for the Dutch government, Douwe writes. The Netherlands should take an example from the Swiss referendum procedure, without the referendum. Before each referendum, Swiss people receive a booklet from the government containing summaries of the social issue, and legal and financial analyses of the possible effects. Furthermore, the parliament, the citizens’ committee and the government give their voting recommendations. Clarity is created by the government in the jungle of disinformation and confirmation bias. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The government cannot determine what information is visible on social media. However, this does not mean that there is no role for the Dutch government, Douwe writes. The Netherlands should take an example from the Swiss referendum procedure, without the referendum. Before each referendum, Swiss people receive a booklet from the government containing summaries of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n