In reply to Patrick.

That ship already sailed. Consider the late Paul Horner, who Rolling Stone called "The Fake Newsman Who Accidentally Helped Trump Win the White House", on the basis of a network of fake news sites which started out as a joke but ultimately influenced the 2016 election. In testimony to a European Parliament committee on fake news in March 2017, he told them "It’s all CSS and Javascript and WordPress and databases."

We have our own little filter bubble in this site and in our community which only sees democratising publishing as a force for good. Outside of our filter bubble, our project is the tool of the trade for individual actions which are undermining the project's values and reputation faster than anyone in the project leadership is prepared to comprehend.