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Again, the problem is that "social media" is so centralized. It seems to me that there is too much focus on "how Facebook and Twitter are doing it wrong". Reli
by thomastjeffery 9y ago
Again, the problem is that "social media" is so centralized.
It seems to me that there is too much focus on "how Facebook and Twitter are doing it wrong". Reliance on Facebook and Twitter to solve misinformation is absurd. We should be focused on alternatives.
- jandrese 9y agoYou want to hold InfoWars accountable for the accuracy of its stories? A noble intention, but probably doomed. One of the interesting things I noticed during the election cycle was the amount of vitriol directed at fact checking organizations like FactCheck.org and Politifact. Calling them partisan hacks and just wings of the DNC was commonplace in some circles. It all seemed rather brazen to me, but shockingly it also seemed to work.
- dredmorbius 9y agoBecause of information and attention dynamics, I seriously doubt any stable altenative regime that doesn't look muchlike the present one will appear. Zipf's Law, network effects, advertising concentration, ec., etc.
- thomastjeffery 9y ago> altenative regime Why must it be a regime? There is no need to use centralized platforms.
- dredmorbius 9y agoregime: 2a "A way of organizing or managing something; a system:" http://www.thefreedictionary.com/regime http://www.thefreedictionary.com/regime
- thomastjeffery 9y agoregime: 1a, 1b, 3.
- dredmorbius 9y agoCuriously enough, those weren't the definitions I offered as those weren't the definitions I was using.