Right-wing extremism and dangerous rhetoric is able to spread quickly online in part because we don't have consensus on reality. Conspiracy theorists looking to undermine democracy thrive off of this. And this only stands to get worse as platforms shirk their responsibility.
🚨🚨 Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child sex-abuse scandal ("grooming gangs") in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight.
We no longer need fact-checkers. We need reality-checkers. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/t...
