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>This is simply not a realistic standard in India, a nation which lacks the basic level of education of many Western nations 2016 US elections showed western e
by Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
>This is simply not a realistic standard in India, a nation which lacks the basic level of education of many Western nations
2016 US elections showed western education doesn't help much in defending against misinformation campaign.
I'm not denying that filtering fake news is going to hard, but when people are getting killed directly as a result of fake news from a platform[1], democratic process are undermined by misinformation campaigns, everything which needs to be done should be done.
As for YouTube moderation policies, at least there are some policies which we can debate upon.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
- ryanlol 7y ago> 2016 US elections showed western education doesn't help much in defending against misinformation campaign. How exactly did they show this?
- rgrs 7y agoJohn oliver, Hasan Minaj,Jimmy Kimmel etc told Russian campaign influenced voters through misformation. As someone who is not american, these youtube shows are our news about US. Whether these shows are misinformed? Honestly I don't know.
- ryanlol 7y agoThe Russian campaign has been widely discussed, yes. Little has been done to establish whether it actually worked. The mere existence of such a campaign does not suggest that it actually impacted election results.
- contravariant 7y agoNow I'm somewhat curious whether you don't consider misinformation to have played a role in those elections or whether you don't consider the U.S. an example of western education.
- ryanlol 7y agoShow some evidence that the misinformation actually had a significant effect. I know it’s been widely discussed, but I haven’t seen any significant efforts to quantify the impact.