I really enjoyed Stephenson's latest take on this in Fall. A tech billionaire got sick of people believing in fake news and so created and then open sourced a b

I really enjoyed Stephenson's latest take on this in Fall. A tech billionaire got sick of people believing in fake news and so created and then open sourced a bunch of tools to allow the generation of an artificial moral panic about any person, place, or topic. The objective was to make it so only blockchainy identities (established by another interesting introduced topic, holographic identies (holograph in the ancient use of the word)) would be trusted. What it led to instead was the creation of a no man zone called "Ameristan" stretching across the middle of red state America, where people were plugged in to a feed of what one character described as "seriously weird shit," incomprehensible memes that self replicated and led to the creation of a wild ass version of Christianity. Anyway, it makes me wonder how one could go about implementing this sort of proof of identity based on all sorts of different factors that, combined, are nearly impossible to spoof.