Astroturfing Is Bad But It's Not the Whole Problem - Nextgov

In 2018, for example, the German Chancellor’s Office, working in collaboration with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the New York University Governance Lab, set up an “annotation platform” and invited dozens of experts—leading computer science, law and ethics scholars—to comment online on the draft of its artificial intelligence policy, providing much-needed perspectives that informed the final draft. Imagine if, instead of oversight hearings with a handful of experts, congressional committees or federal agencies invited a hundred experts to review a draft rule online?