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Good. And I hope that Facebook abandons attempts to be the arbiters of truth and "facts". These initiatives to saddle social media public forums with automatic
by khawkins 8y ago
Good. And I hope that Facebook abandons attempts to be the arbiters of truth and "facts". These initiatives to saddle social media public forums with automatic "fact-checking" are laying the groundwork for an Orwellian future. It's disappointing that more people don't see the dangers in allowing a small number of individuals to decide what is true or false for the rest of us.
- robterrell 8y agoI spent a stupid number of hours fighting disinformation on FB during the 2016 election -- responding to batshit crazy links from FB friends who were getting fed their batshit crazy from what we now know were 100% trolling-for-bucks fake news sites, or straight-up foreign disinformation efforts. I don't have a catchy derogative name for a future where truth is determined by the number of upvotes, but it's clearly not less dangerous than an "Orwellian" future where truth is established by elites. Also -- Snopes is hardly Big Brother.