saves us, but thus far it hasn t. the reason has been surprisingly ineffective. what do we want? some lies never go away. these are not fringe ideas being promoted by people who don t have an audience. these are fringe ideas being promoted by people very much in the main stream. what i worry about is people will start to believe there are no good sources of information and that they have no way of knowing what is true and not true. pressure continues to build on social media giants to intervene and play a more active role in fighting disinformation. and in response ceos from twitter, google and facebook have pointed to changes including fact checking measures and deplatforming users who spread conspiracy theories. some of you will say we re doing too much and removing free speech rights. some of you will say we re not doing enough and end up causing more harm. both points of view are
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and reason would be the thing that saves us, but it hasn t. reason has been surprisingly ineffective. some lies never really go away. these are not fringe ideas being promoted by fringe people who don t have an audience. these are fringe ideas being promoted by people very much in the mainstream. what i worry about is that people will start to believe there are no good sources of information and that they have no way of knowing what is true and what is not true. pressure continues to build on social media giants to intervene and play a more active role in fighting disinformation. and in response ceos from twitter, google and facebook for pointed to changes including fact checking measures and deplatforming users who spread conspiracy theories. some of you would say we re doing too much and removing free speech rights. some of you will say we re not doing enough and end up causing more harm.