How Social Media’s Quiet Retreat from Fact-Checking Fuels the Fake News Economy
1 Count Posts In the halcyon days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when the world was still reeling from Donald Trump’s victory, “fake news” briefly became a problem the world seemed determined to solve. Back then, with a mixture of panic and purpose, social media companies like Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter (now X)
