Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
I'm very late to this, but I wanted to say that partly the fault is on the naive assumption that search engines adopted many years ago that the information found online was mostly true if it had a lot of backlinks.<p>That's no longer true.  If Google or Facebook don't want to censor content, then they need to change the UI and warn that some of the results contain wrong/misleading information, or even complete lies.<p>This fact-checking wasn't needed long ago because the pages with the most backlinks had almost always factual content.