> Looking back we now know that it did some good, but it also did some bad: It meant that everyone on the internet could become a publisher and the result has b

> Looking back we now know that it did some good, but it also did some bad: It meant that everyone on the internet could become a publisher and the result has been fake news, unbridled growth in hate speech, terrorist propaganda, and so on. It meant many users trapped in echo chambers who receive an untrue view of the world. From my perspective, your last sentence perfectly describes the prior. The most prominent purveyor of “fake news” is, by far, the major networks themselves. Hate speech has never been less unbridled, and terrorist propaganda never had anything to do with the CDA.