2/ 🧵 Historians and chroniclers say it can take a long time—perhaps even a century—to gather, compare, and examine all the facts surrounding an event. Events typically fade from memory before we can determine how true they are. Confirming any report that is less than one day old is difficult.

What chance do we have of stopping reports, falsehoods, deceit, misinformation, hoaxes, fakes, superstitious beliefs, and disinformation from sweeping a society?