Unfriending Facebook: A commitment to sharing less nonsense on social media

Because of the abundance of news websites, the weakening hold of quality media on the national imagination is leading to an epidemic of gullibility

Little more than a year ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg published a nearly 6,000-word manifesto on how Facebook intended to build a global community. Alternating saccharine-sweet PR-speak with techno-optimistic babble, Zuckerberg trumpeted that “progress now requires humanity coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.” In an age when both the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation appear weaker than ever, I am not sure I even understood what he meant. Zuckerberg’s bombast, timed it seemed to deflect pressure last year about its role in sharing fake news, drew a withering response from