Zuckerberg and Facebook

[GMDino]

The question that will need to answered is what ARE these sites?  Facebook, Twitter, etc...are they news, are they media, are they business?

There are different rules for different media.  There's a reason the WWF became the WWE beyond being sued for the name.  It is listed as "entertainment" to avoid certain regulations.

Unregulated a candidate could flood social media with outright lies a day or two before an election that their opponent would never have time to respond to.

And that's now new of course.

Candidates have been robocalling falsehoods for as long as I can remember.

Lying isn't the problem...the immense reach of the lies is.

I still have people on my Facebook feed that believe Sandy Hook was a "false flag" with crisis actors.  I can't block the pages that share that stuff fast enough.

People believe what will agree with their preconceived notions must faster than something that challenges them.  And when one or two videos on FB can reach millions in a few minutes it makes it very difficult to get the truth out there.