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This is terrible. The world is too complicated to fact check. For example, "thousands lose their jobs due to minimum wage increase". Is this true or not? Well,
by liamcardenas 10y ago
This is terrible. The world is too complicated to fact check.
For example, "thousands lose their jobs due to minimum wage increase". Is this true or not? Well, some schools of economic thought will think its true, and some will not. Some might say the jobs were lost because there was an increase in automation and some might think the increase in automation was caused by the minimum wage. I truly hope that facebook doesn't try to fact check statements like this.
There is inherent bias in the way we look at the world.
i.e. "Assad bombs his own people" vs "Assad continues the fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda"
Although an argument could be made that these two statements are not mutually exclusive, they are saying different things. It is quite possible that one will pass through the fact checker and one will not.
Facebook is such a huge source of information, it makes me very concerned when a select few organizations have the ability to discredit information across the entire site.
- threeseed 10y agoI can't imagine Facebook is going to intervene in the examples you listed. Especially when they are factual, thoughtful disagreements on a particular topic. But seriously something has to be done about the situation. You can't just allow kids in Macedonia to say what is and isn't real in this world. And the fact is that what happened during the last election. And it is simply unacceptable for it to continue.
- toor2 10y ago> it makes me very concerned when a select few organizations have the ability to discredit information across the entire site One could look at this conversely and say it is concerning when people and oragnizations are able to use Facebook to successfully disseminate misinformation unchecked. I personally find both sides concerning and see no clear solution.