Virtually every policy discussion I take part in refuse to engage with at least #1, #2, and #3 below, just ignore them or brush them off as inconvenient or irrelevant.

What can I say? We can brush them off again and again and pretend they are not there.

But they are still there https://twitter.com/rasmus_kleis/status/1332245348744617985

THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE CANNOT DO "SOMETHING". Of course we can (and in my view should).

But there is opportunity cost to "doing something" in ways that refuse to acknowledge reality of situation we are in. It's the equivalent of "just say no" approach to drinking and drugs.

Saying "do more" is easy.

Developing evidence-based responses that balance credibility, effectiveness, and scale, and recognize that issues like misinformation, privacy, and competition intersect & pull in different directions?

Harder, and sometimes there are trade-offs in life