There is No Good Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem

The utopian dream of the Internet as a place to connect the world and share ideas appears to have found its nemesis not in censorship, as some early Web pioneers feared, but in the proliferation of fake news, an even more pernicious form of misinformation, perfectly designed to take advantage of the viral nature of the open Web. The question of what social-media companies should do, if anything, to combat its spread has been vexing. Earlier this year, Facebook came under fire for allegedly suppressing conservative stories in the trending-news...