Everybody thinks that, because it is the leftist agenda and pushed in all media channels (who also happen to compete with social networks for clicks). The ultimate goal behind that narrative is of course censorship and control.

I'm disappointed that TBL, who seems to be very smart, falls for it so easily. Like when he mentions "feminist bloggers" - these people get toxic replies because they write toxic articles and messages (basically "all men are assholes", so naturally some men get angry about the insult). Haven't experiments in fact found that men receive much more hate messages than women, they just don't make such a fuzz about it?

I don't think TBL actually advocates for censorship (except with his "curation" idea) when he asks for better controls. Good muting, blocking and reporting features go a long way towards making social networks usable.

> Why does everyone think "something needs to be done" about social media?

Facebook offers shitty controls, and reads and influences our conversations. Unlike cellphone carriers.

Same could be said for television, newspapers, and the church, all of which have reflected society's misinformation and misconceptions back onto it for a very long time.

You act like that a lot of things were not done about newspapers or TV?

There are still televangelists and cable news, so I'm pretty sure that the misinformation that people are so upset about on Facebook are still there on TV, too.