HILTZIK: Why can’t social media hold back torrent of right-wing conspiracies?
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times (TNS) By conventional standards, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube showed themselves to be paragons of public service Monday when they took down a video promoting a long-debunked “cure for COVID” and agitating against mask-wearing. The conservative broadcast chain Sinclair also has been praised in some quarters for canceling a segment on one of its television shows