What do you propose as an alternative? Simply allow people to intentionally mislead people for their own gain? Sure, why not? It's pretty much the state of th

What do you propose as an alternative? Simply allow people to intentionally mislead people for their own gain? Sure, why not? It's pretty much the state of things as they always have been, ever since mass media became a thing. Not that there weren't any downsides, to this approach. Buch the point is that the "cure" in this case would be much worse than the disease. I'm surprised actually that someone like Angie -- who not too long ago live in a system where a centralized authority determined, on a daily basis, and with absolute power of discretion which news items were considered "real", legitimate, and newsworthy; and which ones were "fake" -- doesn't immediately and instinctively see how ludicrous such countermeasures are, and how easily (and inevitably) they will be abused.