>Built into this is the assumption that social media is doing more damage than or is more susceptible to malevolent influence than state-run news organizations

>Built into this is the assumption that social media is doing more damage than or is more susceptible to malevolent influence than state-run news organizations or the monopolistic broadcast and print publications of the 20th century and I reject that. If you don’t like Twitter and Facebook, then stop using them. This is a really great point that I have not really considered strongly, and have not heard talked about very often. I am very much on the anti-social-media bandwagon, but it's true that criticisms of social media often rely too much on a revisionist picture of some "golden days" of media where tough, honest reporters did the public a service. That image is definitely rooted in the truth, but it's also true that the media has always had some major flaws related to how their business model works.