The bug is that the internet is also a venue for fraud, lying, misinformation, and manipulation. Not everyone is a fair player, and they ruin it for everyone else. And it’s not black-and-white. Rather, there is a spectrum of behavior, and most people are at various points along that spectrum on different issues. At the same time, there are extremes: some sites that aspire to a high level of journalism or scholarship and, at the other end, sites that are pure fraud, propaganda, or clickbait.
