According to the New York Times, the state of Connecticut – hoping to restore trust in the election process, plans to hire an expert in combating misinformation.
This person will be paid $150,000 a year to search mainstream media sites, as well as weird sites like 4chan, to expose false stories about the voting process.
Colorado and California are doing something similar.
Which is great – but I notice that there’s no mention of any consequences. And without consequences, nothing changes.
Because crazy gets clicks, and any real editing would require websites to pay people to remove all the “good” stuff, by which of course I mean the bad
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