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It boils down to one thing: how does the spread of misinformation compare to the spread of a correction? Every subscriber of a traditional newspaper will see t

It boils down to one thing: how does the spread of misinformation compare to the spread of a correction? Every subscriber of a traditional newspaper will see their corrections, often published the next day. How does Instagram/social media compare? In my experience, it doesn't. I've never seen a correction come through anonymous social media channels.

Mirioron 8y ago
Are you crazy? Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. They're usually in small print to some side, where they reluctantly might retract something. At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention. Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out.
- posting2fast 8y ago
  > Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. Unless they're "big enough". > At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention. And if it's not, it wasn't big enough, or if it was big, but people didn't like it enough because it doesn't suit them, then it still doesn't get spread. Doesn't make it less of a correction though, does it? If you apply something super vague as "big enough" to one, apply it to the other as well. > Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Same here: have you really never seen a correction in a newspaper? Or letters by readers taking issue with previous articles, for that matter? > Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out. That says nothing without looking at the volume of falsehoods that are uncontested, or at the instances where the article is correct, and then the comments contain falsehoods about the subject.

Mirioron 8y ago

Are you crazy? Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. They're usually in small print to some side, where they reluctantly might retract something. At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention. Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out.

posting2fast 8y ago
> Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. Unless they're "big enough". > At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention. And if it's not, it wasn't big enough, or if it was big, but people didn't like it enough because it doesn't suit them, then it still doesn't get spread. Doesn't make it less of a correction though, does it? If you apply something super vague as "big enough" to one, apply it to the other as well. > Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Same here: have you really never seen a correction in a newspaper? Or letters by readers taking issue with previous articles, for that matter? > Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out. That says nothing without looking at the volume of falsehoods that are uncontested, or at the instances where the article is correct, and then the comments contain falsehoods about the subject.