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A significant portion of social media posts are filled with simply false information. I recently got into an argument with someone on Facebook, but stopped whe

by nsl73 6y ago

A significant portion of social media posts are filled with simply false information. I recently got into an argument with someone on Facebook, but stopped when they admitted they weren’t confident Covid-19 is caused by a virus. The level of misinformation has reached a point where I wish I could pay for a service to fact check my Facebook feed, Twitter feed, YouTube videos, etc. I wish these platforms would allow third party filters to plug-in to their platforms and modify feed content and search results. I can imagine many more uses for these filters such as checking for inappropriate content for children or avoiding triggering content for trauma survivors. I can imagine a mix of AI and Humans being involved in these filters, and large number of people subscribing to popular filters.

croutonwagon 6y ago
I find it depressing that people think Twitter Feeds or Facebook feeds or even reddit posts are information sources. They are at best, opinion sources most of the time, and at the lest, they are a biased news source that fits a specific narrative with heavy (and often uninformed) commentary conveniently directly added in. This is different from say....an rss feed of actual news sources that, in theory, are vetting/verifying information for some level of accuracy before publishing it/posting it. That doesnt happen on twitter, facebook or youtube, and there is not a requirement to do so. Now there is still work to be done by you, the reader, to further vet these news sources for bias, but if you cant trust the source information then its entirely worthless. Thats where something like Feedly or any RSS/aggregator that you can organize sources and topics should come in. You can still link in some of these aformentioned sources as well, but you can do so in a way that its obvious that they are probably containing bad information or heavy bias.

by nsl73 6y ago

croutonwagon 6y ago

I find it depressing that people think Twitter Feeds or Facebook feeds or even reddit posts are information sources. They are at best, opinion sources most of the time, and at the lest, they are a biased news source that fits a specific narrative with heavy (and often uninformed) commentary conveniently directly added in. This is different from say....an rss feed of actual news sources that, in theory, are vetting/verifying information for some level of accuracy before publishing it/posting it. That doesnt happen on twitter, facebook or youtube, and there is not a requirement to do so. Now there is still work to be done by you, the reader, to further vet these news sources for bias, but if you cant trust the source information then its entirely worthless. Thats where something like Feedly or any RSS/aggregator that you can organize sources and topics should come in. You can still link in some of these aformentioned sources as well, but you can do so in a way that its obvious that they are probably containing bad information or heavy bias.