. >> my name is ruth shapiro. i was watching the town hall with president obama about guns, and there seemed to be in the audience quite a few people who are very much galvanized i what i believe is completely untrue information about guns. i think the dark side or the underbelly of proliferation of information is the proliferation of untrue and destructive information with isis recruitment being obviously a worst-case example of this. i wonder if you can just discussed the fact that there is untrue, destructive information out there which people are organizing around, and how do you deal with that? there are pros and cons to all things, and the dramatic democratization and proliferation of information has done great rings but there are ifple who can use it in area's ways, isis being the most obvious example. there has been evil in the world before they were social media. .here was prejudice social media allows you to express opinions in different ways. what it does do in some cases is allow people to confront opi

. >> my name is ruth shapiro. i was watching the town hall with president obama about guns, and there seemed to be in the audience quite a few people who are very much galvanized i what i believe is completely untrue information about guns. i think the dark side or the underbelly of proliferation of information is the proliferation of untrue and destructive information with isis recruitment being obviously a worst-case example of this. i wonder if you can just discuss the fact that there is untrue, destructive information out there which people are organizing around, and how do you deal with that? [applause] shelly dan: there are pros and cons to all things, and the dramatic democratization and proliferation of information has done great rings but there are people who can use it in if -- in nefarious ways, isis being the most obvious example. there has been evil in the world before social media. there was prejudice. social media allows you to express opinions in different ways. what it does do in some cases is all

. >> my name's ruth shapiro, and right before i came here, i was watching the town hall with president obama about guns. and there seemed to be, in the audience, quite a few people who were very much galvanized by what i believe is completely untrue information about guns. so i think the underbelly, or the dark side of proliferation of information, is the proliferation of untrue and destructive information with isis recruitment being obviously way, you know, a worst case example of this.5 so i wonder if you can just discuss the fact that there's a lot of untrue destructive information out there, which people are organizing around and how do you deal with that. >> sure. [ applause ] >> i can take that. there are upsides and pros and cons to all things, right? and the dramatic proliferation of information has done great things for the world. but there are people who can use it in nefarious ways, isis being the most obvious example. there has been evil in the world before there was social media. there was prejudice before it. social media really allows people to express opinions they othe