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How is that supposed to help with anything? It'll just take a bit longer to forward a message to all your friends, that's all.
by soziawa 8y ago
How is that supposed to help with anything? It'll just take a bit longer to forward a message to all your friends, that's all.
- omaranto 8y agoAdding a bit of friction reduces the number of people motivated enough to overcome it.
- soziawa 8y agoWe're talking about people willing to kill. It seems obvious to me that these are the kind of people that are motivated enough to tap on their phone 10 more times.
- mathnmusic 8y agoPeople willing to kill is a small subset of people willing to forward rumors. Deliberate friction can indeed be useful.
- isolli 8y agoOnly a minority are willing to kill. The rest just lazily contribute to spreading false rumors. If you stop the lazy ones, you may stop the rumor from going viral and reaching the killers.
- mathnmusic 8y agoThis change makes both fake news and true news hard to spread.
- arunitc 8y agoOf course it doesn't help. Just shows local governments that they are trying all they can to stop spread of fake news
- weavie 8y agoI think this article may provide some context : https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-destroyed-village-lynchings-rainpada-india https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-de...
- rataata_jr 8y agoBuzzfeed! My reliable new source.