The social media are pushing the social thing, which is fair enough from a business standpoint. What isn't fine is that users are (intentionnaly, could be argu

The social media are pushing the social thing, which is fair enough from a business standpoint. What isn't fine is that users are (intentionnaly, could be argued) led to believe that the media part is equivalent to traditional "RSS-like" media like AFP/Reuters/Bloomberg who carried the responsibility of being trustable. There's a place and implementation for everything and social media is not an appropriate platform for diffusion of factchecked information. How we make use of the different information dispersion platforms is on us!