What I mean is that you can't tell easily tell where 'information' is coming from, not that it's hard to verify the information itself. Facebook, Twitter, and

What I mean is that you can't tell easily tell where 'information' is coming from, not that it's hard to verify the information itself. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are easy to game. A recent study claimed that up to 44M Twitter accounts were likely bots--even Twitter grants that many of the accounts are fake. [0] This is kind of like the email spam problem but harder because besides some genuinely difficult technical problems it raises a lot of tricky issues about things like free speech that we're still working through. It's also not just a social media problem. "Cheap and easy publishing" was a design goal of the World Wide Web. https://www.cnet.com/news/new-study-says-almost-15-percent-of-twitter-accounts-are-bots/ https://www.cnet.com/news/new-study-says-almost-15-percent-o...