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I can’t imagine anyone who’s susceptible to radicalization seeing that message and and having any kind of lightbulb go off.

pentae 5y ago
Do you think they really want to help people or is it more likely they are trying to get ahead of being broken up or overtaken by a government appointed authority
esyir 5y ago
I'll probably weight that warning as "might be ml interesting". Seeing that what I like (the old Web) is dying a slow death under the weight of modern privatised censorship, what they're marking as bad might become signal, of sorts.
tiagod 5y ago
I'm thinking it might have the opposite effect for anyone that doesn't trust Facebook
- rndgermandude 5y ago
  I don't know anybody who trusts facebook (the company). But I do know a few people who are all to eager to trust everything that gets posted on facebook, and a sizable chunk of these people would indeed take such an "extremist warning" by facebook to mean that "they" are trying to hide things from the public.
- 0xy 5y ago
  All of my right-wing friends and acquaintances who received this message mocked it and took it as more evidence of Facebook's bias, so I'd say it was inversely effective. It will reinforce views.
  - KozmoNau7 5y ago
    You can't really reason with True Believers, especially not if you're someone they already deeply distrust.
    - lazyeye 5y ago
      Either that or Facebook is biased, and it is completely reasonable to mock them.
lazyeye 5y ago
I see it more as a way of nudging, herding the cattle so to speak, to get people thinking in the way that big tech wants and finds useful. This is not the same thing as discouraging extremism. By any measure, the invasion and monetisng of peoples privacy like Facebook do is extreme.
overkill28 5y ago
And the first, relatively mild warnings on cigarette packages probably didn't convince many to quit, nor did posting calorie counts on fast food menus make everyone switch to salads. But hopefully it's the start of a drumbeat where this type of content becomes less and less acceptable in society. It's not the perfect analogy of course, but I think the solution to divisive, negative, nasty online content is largely a social one not a technological one.
m-p-3 5y ago
IMO it will further antagonize them and the first reaction whoever sees this will be to go further down the rabbit hole.

pentae 5y ago

Do you think they really want to help people or is it more likely they are trying to get ahead of being broken up or overtaken by a government appointed authority

esyir 5y ago

I'll probably weight that warning as "might be ml interesting". Seeing that what I like (the old Web) is dying a slow death under the weight of modern privatised censorship, what they're marking as bad might become signal, of sorts.

tiagod 5y ago

I'm thinking it might have the opposite effect for anyone that doesn't trust Facebook

rndgermandude 5y ago
I don't know anybody who trusts facebook (the company). But I do know a few people who are all to eager to trust everything that gets posted on facebook, and a sizable chunk of these people would indeed take such an "extremist warning" by facebook to mean that "they" are trying to hide things from the public.
0xy 5y ago
All of my right-wing friends and acquaintances who received this message mocked it and took it as more evidence of Facebook's bias, so I'd say it was inversely effective. It will reinforce views.
- KozmoNau7 5y ago
  You can't really reason with True Believers, especially not if you're someone they already deeply distrust.
  - lazyeye 5y ago
    Either that or Facebook is biased, and it is completely reasonable to mock them.

lazyeye 5y ago

I see it more as a way of nudging, herding the cattle so to speak, to get people thinking in the way that big tech wants and finds useful. This is not the same thing as discouraging extremism. By any measure, the invasion and monetisng of peoples privacy like Facebook do is extreme.

overkill28 5y ago

And the first, relatively mild warnings on cigarette packages probably didn't convince many to quit, nor did posting calorie counts on fast food menus make everyone switch to salads. But hopefully it's the start of a drumbeat where this type of content becomes less and less acceptable in society. It's not the perfect analogy of course, but I think the solution to divisive, negative, nasty online content is largely a social one not a technological one.

m-p-3 5y ago

IMO it will further antagonize them and the first reaction whoever sees this will be to go further down the rabbit hole.