[mullingitover]

Ideally, an educated citizenry would have the critical thinking skills and the ability to research, but absent that the social media corps are doing their best to help (albeit ham-handedly).

The alternative is what, the government? The very first amendment to the constitution explicitly forbids the government from interfering with the press.

[anewdirection]

The alternative is to not police speech, and let adults navigate as they see fit.

[hatenberg]

Yea that's gonna go well