Democracies must regulate social media before it is too late

Recently, Michael Ignatieff, well-known public intellectual and former leader of the Canadian parliamentary opposition, spoke to the Royal Irish Academy about the threat to democracy from the assault on universities by government. As rector of the Central European University (CEU), he witnessed how Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, forced the university to move to Vienna in 2018 by refusing to grant the legal permission to operate in Hungary. The CEU is funded by George Soros, billionaire philanthropist who spends $500 million a year promoting democracy through his Open Society network. A Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, Soros resides in America. For…