R. George Wright, Indiana University School of Law, has published The Problem of Social Media Misinformation. Here is the abstract.
Most of us drink deeply of the stream of social media. But we recognize that this stream is not without its pollutants. We may think of such pollutants as, in a broad sense of the term, misinformation. Misinformation in the social media has come under popular, academic, legislative, and judicial scrutiny. As it turns out, though, no combination of social media platform or website policies; internal or external fact-checking; critical media literacy skill instruction; or governmental regulations can do more than put a dent in the problem of social media misinformation. The deficiencies of any one single such approach are typically not made up for by the strength of the other approaches. Each such approach instead more typically contributes its own distinctive additional problems. More meaningful approaches to social media misinformation, in its epidemic proportions, inescapably require attention to basic education and to the fundamental epistemic vices and virtues.
Download the article from SSRN at the link.