Thinking the unthinkable: Is it time to shut Twitter down?

As it has been for more than a decade, Twitter became the place to look for breaking news updates following the Texas Church Massacre on Sunday. And, as it has been increasingly in recent years, Twitter became a hive of lies, propaganda, misinformation, and fake news.
People searching for the name of the alleged shooter via a legitimate news report were just as likely to stumble across deliberate misinformation as pro-gun bots swung into action:
Of course, not all of these posters were bots:This