It's easy to imagine this happening the opposite of what I presume is the intended effect. I can easily visualize a future in which these sorts of tactics infl

It's easy to imagine this happening the opposite of what I presume is the intended effect. I can easily visualize a future in which these sorts of tactics inflame and divide, and cause some people to give the claims more weight, not less. Less easy, at least for me, is to imagine a future where this strategy results in a more civil and evidence-based dialogue. If the surface on which claims can be compared and evaluated, absent restrictions placed by the platform itself, continually narrows, it seems to me that the civic dialogue necessarily narrows with it. A desirable future for the information age is one in which quackish claims are endemic but ineffective.