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In other words, they want people to do fact checking for free for them.
by a_diplomat 6y ago
In other words, they want people to do fact checking for free for them.
- munificent 6y agoYes, just like HN wants you to write content in the form of comments for free. I get your point, but this is an overly simplistic economic reduction of the incentives and value propositions. Yes, Twitter wants you fact check for free. They also want you to write Tweets for free. In return, the hypothetical value proposition is that the tweets you and others read are more likely to be factual. If this is successful at scale, it means that the voters in the hopefully democratic place you live will be more informed and more likely to vote for reality based policies. So, sure, they don't give you a nickel when you fact check. But that doesn't mean it doesn't (possibly) provide sufficient value to you to be worth doing.
- gknoy 6y agoThis seems like it would be very vulnerable to people supporting a viewpoint (whether true or not) brigading the heck out of posts about the other viewpoint.
- a_diplomat 6y agoIt's also the case that there are a lot more people living in undemocratic countries than in democratic ones. I understand the need to have multiple solutions to this problem, but this can never become an alternative for platforms taking more responsibility for content themselves. And, for democratic countries to create a grand coalition to set norms in this space.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoMaybe eventually we’ll circle back to letting people make their own judgements about which “facts” to trust.