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I guess a question I have is how does a platform promote "truthful" content when only user actions are present (voting, viewing, subscribing, etc.) with resorti

by ausbah 6y ago

I guess a question I have is how does a platform promote "truthful" content when only user actions are present (voting, viewing, subscribing, etc.) with resorting to an omnipresent, final "arbiter of truth" or "presenting all view points as equal"?

Avamander 6y ago
It doesn't. It promotes the truth people want to see, a platform can only flag obvious false information but that will always piss people off. Imagine if all the creationism videos suddenly get flagged as false news, I'd cackle, but YouTube would be lynched.
- leppr 6y ago
  Or imagine they flagged videos showing how face masks help contain Covid-19 as fake news back when the official US government recommendation was still to not buy and wear masks because they are useless? That'd have pissed people off too.