Tech companies should better prevent spread of disinformation

If the late author George Orwell was correct that political language is "designed to make lies sound truthful" and "give an appearance of solidity to pure wind," then surely social media was made to fan those lies far and wide.

That's much easier to do when bots artificially amplify disinformation.

Automated accounts on Twitter do so in a variety of ways. One is by heavily promoting a lie immediately after it's published, tricking real people into trusting and sharing it.