What about a Fact Check Consortium that is sanctioned by the FCC to replace Fairness Doctrine?

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17. One long-term but necessary solution...

...Is that we MUST consider basic critical thinking, and the media savvy to identify manipulation and propaganda techniques, as skills which are just as fundamental to education as literacy and math.

Of course, this will be a hard sell, because too much of business and politics and religion depends on exploiting common failings of critical thinking. One of the things (among many) that has shocked me about the Trump era is how well incredibly crude propaganda techniques work on so many people. Ploys that seem to me glaringly obvious and ham-fisted nevertheless sway huge numbers of people.

Ignorance and gullibility are too easily exploited, especially in an online world, to the peril of stable democracies.