Opinion: Users not suppliers to blame for false news
Gideo Lewis-Kraus, Wired, January 15, 2020, warns that to blame social media for the end of evidence-based political discourse is unproductive since users drive the phenomenon. It isn’t touching the problem to ban false information and to blame the suppliers for the misdeeds of the users. “…our burden has little to do with limiting or moderating the supply of political messages or convincing those with false beliefs to replace them with true ones,” writes Lewis-Kraus,