This is complicated. Anti-vax, flat earth and other ideologies masked as science have turned into virus', distributed over social. At the same time, people with

This is complicated. Anti-vax, flat earth and other ideologies masked as science have turned into virus', distributed over social. At the same time, people with all sorts of ideologies are shouting down facts they don't agree with. Scientists researching potential behavior and psychological treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome are being targeted on Twitter so aggressively that many are giving up on the research, and some journals are pulling their findings (1). What happens when these people scream until Amazon pulls books about it? A whole field of helpful research could be burried for decades. These ideological battles used to be local. Now they are global and it's causing real harm. We've discussed this previously. (2) “Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses - viruses generated from within itself.” (1) https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-... (2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280858