The Year Silicon Valley Went Morally Bankrupt (opens in new tab)

> The consequences of Zuckerberg’s inaction are now clear. On December 4, a North Carolina man brought a loaded weapon into Washington, D.C.’s Comet Ping Pong to investigate a conspiracy theory called #Pizzagate in which Comet is the hub of a child-trafficking ring organized by Democratic Party operatives. The story was popularized by fake news.

In the days after the election, I too believed in social media's major role the unexpected results. However, after more reflection, the problem seems far beyond facile dissemination of fake news: a large portion of the population are either post-truth thinkers, or, simply never learned how to fact check their news sources. If someone is going to be swayed to elect a different candidate because of a story that popped up in their news feed, there's not a whole lot we can do besides ensure that the next generation is better educated in healthy skepticism and critical thinking.

So, they tear Zuckerberg a new one for not policing fake news hard enough, then end the article with: "Algorithms can’t solve everything."

And this was written by "Sarah Jones [...] the social media editor at The New Republic."

Sarah needs to take a forest-level view of her life. There is a striking contradiction in the way she has played her cards.