The real problem did not start with Facebook and other social media being fake. It was the main stream media that started to generate fake news with the support of their local governments. No one can explain better than [ https://chomsky.info/ ].

The other issues is international, before this year US elections, US used these so called social media to "export its kind" of democracy to other part of the world, call it Arab Spring and rest of the events in middle east and recently in Turkey. It was perfectly legitimate to use them as under cover agents of democracy.

History has taught a lesson to American( sensible ones) who were closing their eyes/or unawre of world events specially and how they affected the people around the glob using "Democracy" "Freedom of speech" "human values" while violating the exact same thing at the same time.

Their bigotry has revealed in a strange way, but its too late for lots of people, for Americans and for the rest of the World.

What are the alternatives:

a). Free media the ways it should be, main stream media is polarized itself already and dictated by high in the Govt. offices.

b). Accept that democracy does not work sometimes if its helping hands are already chopped off e.g participation of civil society, feed media etc ..

c). Do not spread democracy for the sake of democracy if its more evil than dictatorship.