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1s 2ost consequential offender is the American education system and the parents who are content with raising children who know little about their country, much less about the rest of the world.

The most consequential offenders in the dissemination, and success, of fake news are not the Russians or social media company executives, but the American education system, and the parents who are content with raising children who know little about their country, much less about the rest of the world.

is a symptom of the fact that a significant portion of Americans are ungovernable and unfit for the task of citizenship in a free country.

What the scandal of 2016's hacks, Russian meddling and disinformation proves, is that a significant portion of Americans are ungovernable and unfit for the task of citizenship in a free country. It certainly does not have to stay that way, but reversal would demand an entirely new approach to education, popular political discussion and the preparation of children for the adult world. As long as the focus remains solely on easily identifiable villains ' foreign dictators, greedy tech magnates ' American democracy will remain an easy target for illusionists and conmen.

David Masciotra

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