A Third Way For Fact Checking

With the announcement Meta will end its fact checking program, people are wondering: What’s the best way for the digital media space to handle untruths, today and beyond? 

Americans lost trust with fact checking when it became akin to a dictatorship — one small group of elites telling everybody what to think. We don’t trust dictatorships, even ones we consider benevolent, as history shows they always go wrong. But we also don’t want pure anarchy, where lawlessness and the powerful overwhelm society, and everyone else suffers.