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Catch-22. When they don’t they’re attacked for harbouring, and allowing the algorithmic spread of, fake news. Besides, sites like Facebook and Twitter started
by ycombinete 5y ago
Catch-22. When they don’t they’re attacked for harbouring, and allowing the algorithmic spread of, fake news.
Besides, sites like Facebook and Twitter started to “get in the middle of these things” the moment they stopped simply showing you a chronological series of posts from people/pages you follow; to a weighted interest system, based on opaque algorithms.
- linuxftw 5y agoIf people are smart enough to use the internet, they're smart enough to determine for themselves who's telling the truth and who isn't. If they're not smart enough, then who cares what they think anyway?