All of this fake news discussion makes me think about McLuhan. It's as if we are forgetting the point of internet.

> McLuhan's central thesis, encapsulated in the famous phrase "the medium is the message", was that the technologies through which we take in information - the media, broadly defined - become "extensions" of our bodies, exerting a profound influence over us. When an important new medium arrives, it can reshape who we are as individuals and as a society. [1]

> Electric media, being cool technologies that promote interaction, would bring back our lost tribal consciousness, McLuhan believed. But our tribes would no longer be small, isolated groups. Because the new media spanned the planet, we would become members of a "global village". [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/nov/01/comment.i...