This is an extremely well formed comment, and thanks for all the sources backing it up. > Any smart nation who wants to protect the minds of their citizens wo

This is an extremely well formed comment, and thanks for all the sources backing it up. > Any smart nation who wants to protect the minds of their citizens would do well to extremely regulate social media in their country. Extremely regulating social media isn't going to decrease the gormlessness of the population. In fact it'll probably make it worse. We can try to tamp down manipulative content all we want but it's a losing battle. What we need instead is to educate our masses. The problem is we won't, because our regulators want to be able to manipulate us. They just don't want other countries to be able to.