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I don't even know why facebook could possibly be considered useful for news, considering the high density of plain idiots who post. Twitter is quite better , be

I don't even know why facebook could possibly be considered useful for news, considering the high density of plain idiots who post. Twitter is quite better , because you can unfollow idiots; they aren't forced upon you by social convention by being real life friends. But i d like to extoll the virtues of Reddit. Communities like r/china_flu or r/covid19 are moderated, contain a reasonable amount of rumors and early information that a moderately smart person can benefit from, and the density of information is quite high. Makes one wonder why those facebooks and instagrams get all the advertising money ...

jfk13 7y ago
As you said, > Communities like r/china_flu or r/covid19 are moderated If the moderation is any good, it should keep most advertising out. So it gets spent somewhere else.
troyvit 7y ago
Seriously. At this point I'm ready to accept that the world is what we made it. If that means we kill ourselves because we're too daft to read social media critically then as a species we get what we deserve. There's a cute, loose correlation between internet access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/File:InternetPenetrationWorldMap.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/F... and covid spread: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/locations-confirmed-cases.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/locations-confirme...
SuoDuanDao 7y ago
In theory, we know the people who post on Facebook and assess their credibility personally. Unfortunately, it's difficult to assess information even from people we know personally when we only see written statements, many of which are copied from elsewhere.