Platforms can also respond to misleading content that does not violate official policies using community-based moderation that adds context to misleading posts (like X’s Community Notes and YouTube’s new crowdsourced note program). Larger platform changes such as ranking content based on quality, rather than engagement, might hit at the root of the problem rather being than a Band-Aid fix.
Bold idea, right?! Meanwhile the tech bros in charge of those sites are like “We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas!”