Thread · 2 tweets · 28 Oct 2019

I don't think that lying online is a problem, I would say the problem is having a platform so large, incentivised to spread what is viral, and with zero external oversight such that bad things happen from its scale alone. I could be wrong but fixing just this seems whack-a-mole.

So my preferred solution would be to break it up, then enforce standards & interoperability between social networks (the standards largely exist) and strong privacy law so it doesn't come back. Then the lies will be at Fox News scale only, which sucks but society can handle.