Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media (MIT Technology Review)

MIT Technology Review: Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media. “…like secondhand smoke, misinformation damages the quality of public life. Every conspiracy theory, every propaganda or disinformation campaign, affects people—and the expense of not responding can grow exponentially over time. Since the 2016 US election, newsrooms, technology companies, civil society organizations, politicians, educators, and researchers have been working to quarantine the viral spread of misinformation. The true costs have been passed on to them, and to the everyday folks who rely on social media to get news and information.”