[jpk]

I'm glad this is something we're starting to figure out. The more something you read or hear makes you immediately mad, the less you should share or repeat it without additional verification. Our instinct is of course the opposite, which is why some are looking at Free Speech as a hindrance when attempting to address bad faith reporting and demagoguery.

But our instinct when someone else has more food than us is to go bash them over the head with a rock and take it... however, we've spent great effort to raise all children not to do that, for obvious reasons. So the answer has to be that we preserve Free Speech, knowing that misinformation and demagogues will exist, but broadly train our critical thinking to override those instincts to the end that we can effectively divide truth from lies.

We've had millennia to suppress our aggressive tendencies to the point where civilization is possible. But the retweet button is, like, 20 years old? We'll get there, but probably on generational timescales.