--- title: Five Best: How Snapchat Skipped the Fake News description: How Snapchat skipped fake news, how healthcare for all could work here, world-changing breakthroughs, spider-silk hearing aids and more. canonical: https://time.com/5011466/how-snapchat-avoided-fake-news/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-06T17:00:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:21.918Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Five Best: How Snapchat Skipped the Fake News og:description: How Snapchat skipped fake news, how healthcare for all could work here, world-changing breakthroughs, spider-silk hearing aids and more. og:url: https://time.com/5011466/how-snapchat-avoided-fake-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Five Best: How Snapchat Skipped the Fake News twitter:description: How Snapchat skipped fake news, how healthcare for all could work here, world-changing breakthroughs, spider-silk hearing aids and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Snapchat Avoided Fake News by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Snapchat has steered clear of (most) fake news. Here’s how.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-26/how-snapchat-has-kept-itself-free-of-fake-news) By Max Chafkin at _Bloomberg Businessweek_ **2\.** [**Could healthcare for all really work here?**](https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/when-everyone-has-health-care/) By Danyaal Raza in _Democracy_ **3\.** [**Cheaper batteries, sustainable concrete and reinventing meat: These breakthroughs will change the future.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2017/10/31/technology-environment/?utm%5Fterm=.49f7d7935472) By Bill Joy in the _Washington Post_ with the _WorldPost_ **4\.** [**This four in one utility solution will create radical savings in energy and money.**](http://news.nus.edu.sg/press-releases/smart-utilities-plant) By the National University of Singapore **5\.** [**Spider silk might be the key to better hearing aids.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/31/hearing-aid-spider-silk/) By Megan Thielking in _STAT News_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5011466/how-snapchat-avoided-fake-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5011466/how-snapchat-avoided-fake-news/"},"headline":"How Snapchat Avoided Fake News","datePublished":"2017-11-06T17:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:21.918Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5011466/how-snapchat-avoided-fake-news/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","snapchat","Healthcare","Utilities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5011466/how-snapchat-avoided-fake-news/","name":"How Snapchat Avoided Fake News"}}]}] ```