Fake News’s Not-So-Real Antitrust Problem: Content Remains King

By Gus Hurwitz – 

The contemporary problem of fake news is urgent but difficult to address. Fake news propagates across social media platforms, competing with better sources of information (“real news”) for consumer attention. As social media platforms have grown over the past decades from myriad small discussion forums to dominant platforms traditional news media have experienced catastrophic declines in revenue and readership. It is easy to conflate these two trends, linking the mon