Google, Facebook and fake news

[Husar]

It is an imaginary issue that really exists.

People who have a job often already live in a bubble because most jobs surround them with a certain kind of people.
A business consultant probably has different friends than a mailman.
Not to forget that people may not talk about politics in face to face conversation because they fear it could ruin their (likely superficial) friendships just like doing the same on Facebook does. In that case, one could say that Facebook just releases the pressure valves and exposes the hard reality that was previously suppressed but cooking right below the surface.

As for suppressing the fake news, I am not sure whether it actually helps spread them or whether people weren't already idiotic enough before that. The problem with suppressing them is, and Zuckerberg is aware of that, that it will make them look biased inevitably. The people WANT to believe in those fake news, that need already existed before someone made them. The problem with the market is that most participants are idiots and all the others are despicable, arrogant elitists.

Maybe we should cut out the part we call the "lizard brain"? Have drones do it on all of us simultaneously and see what happens.