Social media platforms, sometimes jawboned by the federal government, invoked this supposed crisis to justify censorship, especially during the pandemic. A new study explores how exposure to "misinformation" on social media affected voters in 2020. The hysteria around "misinformation" assumes democracy runs on unvarnished truth. The era of machine politics did not destroy the republic, nor will social media. The challenge today is that social media supercharges the factionalism that has always plagued the body politic.