True, but the issues the article discussed could also be directed at the internet in general. No one is curating everything on the internet, and through email

True, but the issues the article discussed could also be directed at the internet in general. No one is curating everything on the internet, and through email fake news can easily become viral. Facebook makes it easier for such things to occur, but the virality of fake news and mob organization is in general due to internet technologies. If not Facebook, maybe it would have been AOL or MySpace, or some other enterprising social network. Picking out Facebook seems to be scapegoating a particular company for the ills of global communication. Before the internet age we had newspapers and pamphleteers and the like which similarly spread fake news and instigated the mobs. On the other hand, Facebook might have a unique opportunity to help educate people on how to think critically about the news they see. I think the real issue is that Facebook has a whole lot of money, so now people can start suing Facebook and get their hands on some of that filthy lucre.