A good article, if a bit of a rant. The frustrating thing about all this is that civilised people worked out, back in the 18th century that the solution is to

A good article, if a bit of a rant. The frustrating thing about all this is that civilised people worked out, back in the 18th century that the solution is to let bullshit and truth have free play so that free people can decide for themselves. That doesn't mean interweb giants won't have there work cut out for them. But that should be workaday stuff like blocking spam and the like. "The like" includes stuff like folks who make up stupid stuff just to get clicks -- but it doesn't mean every kind of lie or misinformation.