It's scary on face value. But even scarier: this is what 'free speech' really looks like and that's an important right obviously. Some people worry about the

It's scary on face value. But even scarier: this is what 'free speech' really looks like and that's an important right obviously. Some people worry about the occasional 'ugly expression of hate' - which is a real concern, but in the grand scheme a problem that can be tackled, if there is authenticity. But it's 1) the organic mass misinformation (things like QAnon) which influence incredible numbers of people and 2) the side-influence of things like we see in the article. Media, just like Banking/Finance, much of Energy is a 'strategic industry'. It's always been protected. There is 0% chance that any nation would allow, for example, a Russian company with ties to Putin just go ahead and buy CNN and NBC. Aside from that - there was/is cultures and standards within that industry that regulate information. All of them are susceptible to some 'national bias' and other biases run amok, that said, there is at least some degree of scrutiny and control. On TikTok, you can make up whatever truth you want, millions will see it and that's that. I'm seeing dozens of Pro/Anti Israeli/Palestinian TikToks and it's 99% rubbish, I just can't fathom what people's heads are being filled with, it's hard enough to get good information even from the 'regular news'. If you make it so that public forums can be controlled by powers (political, external, commercial - whatever) - they will be. So this is a legit new 'Giant Problem' we face.