Some reflections from Senator Todd Young over at Politico:

As I talk about this topic with regular citizens — that is, those who don’t own major social media companies or work at Washington, D.C., think tanks — there is an appetite for certain smart regulatory approaches. However, in the last few years I think there’s been a heightened awareness of the potential when you regulate to constrain speech, and a general skepticism of regulators’ intentions and ideologies and good faith in trying to intermediate conversations.

When I entered the public fray, I think there was an appetite — or maybe a missed window of opportunity — to come up with a better model through law. It’s really challenging right now, because we’ve become, in many ways, a nation of distinct tribes not just in terms of our political identification but our belief system. There’s a distrust of efforts to sort out fact from fiction and to referee the public square, and private actors have seized control of the public square through these social media outlets. We haven’t figured out how to address that in a pluralistic, highly populous and dynamic democracy, and we’re going to have to come up with answers at some point.