It's a growing problem, yes, but I see it as a different problem. Social media is by definition people. It's a culture/education problem, because people would s

It's a growing problem, yes, but I see it as a different problem. Social media is by definition people. It's a culture/education problem, because people would spread it on messaging apps (like whatsapp) or even mouth to mouth, so there's seemingly no technological solution to that. It's also easier to discredit information based on who's spreading it. Meanwhile Google is taken as authority on what's relevant. So actually there is something to do with tech we could do: transparent trust chains where you know where information is coming from out of your trusted peers and which trusted peers of theirs. It's very hairy, because trustworthiness in one subject doesn't carry over well in many cases, but maybe machine learning will help us there. That would be a nicer scenario than everyone trusting what Google says should be the most important public things to know about a given person. Even politicians suffer from misinformation spread by opposition, so it's not clear cut even in that case.