in 2008 even President Obama felt that, instead of this, it was more important to focus on “opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible.”40 In a free market of ideas, wouldn’t the truth win out? Actually, no. More speech across diverse outlets does not balance out disinformation, because if no individual network has to be “fair,” this incentivizes news siloes that are devoted to skewed content, which is sometimes all that anyone watches.
