Sometimes it’s very simple. I remember during 2020 when a video being pushed by two doctors used plainly incorrect math to assess Covid deaths. It was later banned and that was decried as bias, but math, for example, is objective and can be reproduced by anyone who understands it, so that’s one way to determine misinformation.

Requiring evidence when making claims is another. For example, if you’re going to say the election is stolen, then there should be some evidence to back that claim. You can voice your suspicion, but if you’re going to claim something so significant is true then there should be some actual proof behind the claim.


Classic journalism has a lot of methods for discerning truth from falsity as well. For example, asking multiple witnesses without telling each what the other said, or assessing the chain of control to make sure evidence hasn’t been tampered with and is reliable.

There are far more ways to distinguish information from potential misinformation than what I’ve laid out here, and we shouldn’t act as if there’s no logical way to ensure information is more or less reliable.

And to your other statement, non-billionaires have other options as well. They founded those platforms, but anyone else who wants to imitate them can go to those places where it’s allowed.