The ethics of social media sourcing in an age of misinformation

The ethics of social media sourcing in an age of misinformation

Graphic by James Salanga. The dissemination of inaccurate information online is hardly a new problem, but the extent of its damage has reached unparalleled levels. Now, with Mark Zuckerberg’s recent decision to eliminate fact-checkers on Facebook, the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence and bots on every platform programmed to mimic a widespread consensus, and X’s pay-to-play verifications (not to mention the implantation of comm…