Did you know false news on social media spreads six times faster than the truth? That's from a peer-reviewed MIT study that tracked over 126,000 stories. When a platform reaches that scale, it stops being a private company making fun content — it becomes critical infrastructure for public discourse. We regulate utilities like electricity and water because they're essential services with monopolistic tendencies. Social media fits the same bill. There's no real competition anymore; you're either on Facebook, X, or you're effectively cut off from major parts of public life. And unlike your power company, these platforms get to decide what content is suppressed or amplified without any oversight. I get the libertarian concern about government overreach in speech. That worries me too. But we already regulate utilities without owning them. We can set clear, nonpartisan rules for content moderation and algorithmic transparency while leaving the platforms privately managed. That's not censorship — that's accountability.

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