It's also hopeless. In the contemporary political climate marking anything other than alien anal probe stories as fake will bring condemnation. We (and other na

It's also hopeless. In the contemporary political climate marking anything other than alien anal probe stories as fake will bring condemnation. We (and other nations) have a President with tens of millions of supporters who contend daily that the coldest, most objective of facts is fake news. And let's be honest, even the center has trouble challenging Trump sometimes because often there's some kernel of truth buried deep in his ridiculous rants. You can't simply label something as fake without being credibly accused of bias; you have to wrestle with it on its own twisted terms, which is both a time sink and ineffective. If removing fake news was just about censoring lies, it would be easy. But fake news is about obscuring the truth, which is something else entirely. Censoring fake news makes you the arbiter of truth, not the arbiter of lies. It's like the difference between not being evil vs being good. That's why the weaponization of fake news is so devious. The only way to win is to not play the game. Facebook's mistake was pretending they could do actually something about it. But they had to say that because to admit that it was infeasible would be an admission that their advertising platform was less powerful and effective than their sales pitches claimed.