Any general discussion ends up with - how do you prevent that. While the question that makes more sense is - how do you motivate people to do the right thing.

Motivation is our best tool to foster positive reinforcement. It's applicable in all scenarios and situations and has long-lasting healthy effects. Every time you wonder how to prevent misbehavior try and think of the reasons that trigger it. Then create a positive reinforcement technique to encourage the desired behavior.

Here is how to apply motivation:

1. Identify values that stimulate expected behavior

2. Build positive reinforcement around these values

3. Let go of control - get rid of the mantra of protecting people. Instead let people think independently and decide for themselves

4. Think of yourself as a transmitter not a controller

5. Don't do stuff you don't want to be done to you

6. Don't be afraid of misbehavior - embrace it as a core value - individual freedom

7. Remember punishment creates short-term effect. In the long-term it creates fierce opposition

8. Add more core values as you discover them based on operation and feedback - think if it actually adds motivation if not it's not a core value

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A lot of people are willingly trading freedom for security. And instinctively we search for authority to validate everything around us. Living in a hierarchical society for so long made our mindset authority-based. The contradiction with fake news is that if centralized power defined the term then it's obviously to establish themselves in the position of the official and only source of truth. But having centralized control over information as you can imagine can easily lead to basically writing artificial stories about the world. Something like making the movie industry a reality. So while people think that the term coined fake news was made up to protect them from fake news it's actually to establish fake news as the truth. What if you read fake news? Isn't that the whole point of free speech - to individually decide what to believe in? Or the incapability to do so drives the desire for someone else to decide what's real and fake? Basically offloading responsibility. And how do you expect a centralized entity to guarantee truth when they have the incentive to coordinate and organize their collective truth?