Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear

Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is….us... Racing to implement Band-Aids may feel good, but ... creates a distraction while enabling the underlying issues to flourish... I mostly see “fake news” being deployed by folks as a new frame for pushing long-standing agendas and commitments...
countless actors are building the capacity to manipulate others through much less easily detectable content. They’re hacking the attention economy and they keep iterating as people try to block ... “meme magic” is ... about setting in motion particular frames and logics that can be activated through memetic reference, making it harder and harder to stop...
I was astounded by the sheer ingenuity of people who were able to manipulate any well-designed feature that we implemented...
Band-Aid solutions ... may make things invisible for a while, but hate will continue to breed unless you address the issues at the source... we need to ... Develop social, technical, economic, and political structures that allow people to understand, appreciate, and bridge different viewpoints. Too much technology and media was architected with the idea that just making information available would do that cultural work.