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Facebook is a social media network, not a science journal. Can people not share things that are unscientific now? Goodness, it's as if we've gone backwards in t
by Thorentis 6y ago
Facebook is a social media network, not a science journal. Can people not share things that are unscientific now? Goodness, it's as if we've gone backwards in time and sharing anything that isn't accepted by the scientific majority is heretical and ought to be censored ASAP. What will we have next, public burnings of Facebook profiles that have had too many 'misinformation' labels assigned to it?
Facebook chose to step into the role of being an information arbiter instead of remaining neutral like it should. Facebook should be a facilitator not a gatekeeper. Imagine if during a public debate the moderator interrupted one side constantly with clarifications or "misinformation" corrections - it would be a boring debate, unfair to one side, and the moderator would be doing the job of the opponent. I don't want my information to be moderated. And since social networks should be about people sharing with other people, I don't want Facebook getting in between that.
- aspenmayer 6y agoI wish Facebook worked more like a super-RSS reader platform, with optional personal and third-party customization. I subscribe to a page or follow a person, and I get their feed of shares and posts. Then I can feed those posts through Facebook’s spam filter, and my own, and also sort posts by content or keywords into buckets. I can also apply Facebook’s fact-checker, along with EFF’s, ACLU’s, and NRA’s, just to name a few. Then I can see who agrees, and who disagrees, and read between the lines for myself. Now that I mention it, does the Fediverse and/or Mastodon have these kinds of features/functions? I think open source products are going to meet my needs well before consumer products.