It's depressing that the majority of the comments here are just reiterating the same trite arguments of authoritarianism. Whenever even mildly political posts

It's depressing that the majority of the comments here are just reiterating the same trite arguments of authoritarianism. Whenever even mildly political posts show up on this site , especially regarding US politics, it becomes a shitshow. For example, you'll find the anti-maskers/covid-deniers arguing that this is proof that masks are ineffective and just another step towards government control. That's despite the author actually saying anything to that effect. Then you'll have the libertarians (with some Venn diagram cross over) saying that fact checkers don't allow individual thought, without acknowledgihow damaging false information spreading on social media is. You'll also have well meaning progressives completely fumble the nuance of the situation. in the end, the issue here is the author wrote a clickbait blogspam specifically to exacerbate emotions, got the expected result and then followed it up with another to capitalize on it. Their original article had a specifically written title or "Junk Science" to seem more incindiary than the source they quoted (which used "shaky science" instead). That's a dog whistle of a title. Perhaps Facebook needs more nuance in their fact checking classification with the ability to label something as clickbait , requiring authors to pick less inflammatory titles for their content. I suspect that would go a long way to improving social media anyway. Perhaps it could put the post behind a clickbait warning clickthrough or a strong clickbait text below the article. Or perhaps, like on HN, the post titles could be altered to directly represent the content.