Actual Discussion

The problem is like dealing with dandelions ... Deal with the issue at the root and ignore the pretty little flowers and leaves that come out of the ground. You can keep mowing down the flowers and leaves but if you never deal with the root, you'll forever be living with dandelions growing from every crack in the concrete, edge of your lawn and through the gaps in your walkway. They will never stop unless you deal with the roots.

The root of the problem with disinformation in the world right now is corporately controlled media. All information is managed, controlled, filtered, manipulated and maintained by a handful of powerful corporate entities that enjoy directing people's rage against government opponents and encouraging those government political parties that would best serve their corporate interests.

A way to deal with it is to regulate and manage every major social media company in the same way as newspapers, cable tv, magazines, television and film production ... everything they do on their platform has to be regulated by a complex system of government and public oversight in order for it to be made available and used by the citizens of the country.

This does not mean regulate the internet for individual citizens or even private individuals from other countries. Any one person on their own can say whatever they please on their own and publish on the internet. However, as soon as its made available on a major social media platform, it becomes the responsibilities and liability of the corporation that owns the media platform. The social media company would be responsible for making sure that any content that is published is set to the same standards and regulations as a newspaper, a public billboard, a magazine advertisement, a public banner, a television advertisement. If the content that is published on the social media company, no matter who made it available, it would be the responsibility of the social media company and if failed to meet any regulation, the company would be fined and penalized for it on every instance. The company would be forced to regulate everything that is published on their platform forcing them to regulate the content instead of the government.

This is the same situation that happened to society at the turn of the last century in 1900 when newspapers became the only source of critical information in the world ... governments everywhere had to regulate these publications because they all knew that if these big companies were let loose, they would manipulate the world to their own ends. The same thing is happening now ... instead of newspapers we call it Social Media now ... and all our public information, discourse and information sharing the majority of the world shares now is on social media. Like it or not, most people get their news on social media and little to none of it is regulated. It's an information, disinformation, misinformation free for all ... which is why we are all suffering from all this political insanity.

It doesn't matter what the issue is ... racism, sexism, politics, religion, identity, whatever ... so long as we leave the keys to the information highway to private corporations, we will always have these problems of communications, hatred, anger, anxiety and fear everywhere on every issue.

Regulate and control Social Media Corporations and remove their power over public information.

Otherwise, we will continue to dive into the abyss of misinformation.