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Is there any evidence that removal of content one believes to be false actually achieves the remover's goals of changing the opinions of the potential viewers?

by ve55 6y ago

Is there any evidence that removal of content one believes to be false actually achieves the remover's goals of changing the opinions of the potential viewers? I would personally be quite upset if I found platforms deleting content that I wanted to read and learn about, I don't think anyone wants someone else to choose what they can and can't learn about, regardless of its veracity. Again, I'm sure Google starts with good intentions here, but I'm not sure they have thought this all the way through. We'll see in the coming years.

erichocean 6y ago
> Is there any evidence that removal of content one believes to be false actually achieves the remover's goals of changing the opinions of the potential viewers? Yes, recently in fact: Rasmussen polled Biden voters about the Hunter Biden laptop story that was suppressed on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (and legacy media), and 9.4% said they would not have voted for Biden if they had known prior to voting (IIRC ~50% of them had not heard about it). That's enough votes to get Trump elected in spite of the changes to how elections were conducted in the four swing states Texas sued earlier this week. Suppression works really, really well. Expect to see more of it in the future.