Ideally, an educated citizenry would have the critical thinking skills and the ability to research, but absent that the social media corps are doing their best

Ideally, an educated citizenry would have the critical thinking skills and the ability to research, but absent that the social media corps are doing their best to help (albeit ham-handedly). The alternative is what, the government? The very first amendment to the constitution explicitly forbids the government from interfering with the press.