social media platforms feature a shocking amount of false, misleading, and incendiary content. And this is not surprising. The absence of traditional gatekeeping allows charlatans and know-nothing pundits to reach vast audiences, and the profit-maximising design of platforms is often hostile to truth and rational discourse. In a competitive attention economy mediated by engagement-grabbing algorithms, outrage-generating, identity-affirming, and bias-confirming content usually outcompetes thoughtful analysis and debate. (View Highlight)