In a perfect world yes.

Yup prevent egregious lies like trump

Newspapers used to always fact check. They used to always have more than one source too.

If social media networks did at least that much due diligence it would be a lot harder to lead people to a false impression about a candidate.

Right now there's an "anything goes" attitude that's pretty horrific. People believe what they see in print - whether they should or not. It's the written word - it must be real.

Yes, because far too many people are too gullible, fail to even think about whether or not something is factual or not, or are just simply too lazy to check. I think the first two categories are more problematic. I do wonder at the correlation between those and the religious.

I don't see how Trump can force Twitter to do anything about fact-checking one way or another. It seems to me anything of the sort would clearly violate the First Amendment. It's kind of like letters sent to newspaper or magazine editors.

Yes, they should. Because they aren't merely "social networks" - they are political and advertising networks. Facebook should monitor their political ads like they monitor their ads for products - for dishonest representations.

We should all fact-check everything, particularly if we are re-posting/sending it on. Takes just seconds on Google to check the source, the author, the claim. Lazy re- posting does Nobody any good!

I think they should. At least give others the opportunity to show some objectivity.