There are vast hundreds of millions to billions of people who don't watch the news and don't read books, get their information from social media and rumors, and

There are vast hundreds of millions to billions of people who don't watch the news and don't read books, get their information from social media and rumors, and don't know about authoritative primary sources or critical thinking. After all, what else would explain populist authoritarians being so wildly popular almost globally at this time? And maybe we need a social media platform that forbids plaintext and only allows fixed patterns of statements backed by citations from reputable sources only? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯