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I see a picture of a link with a "false information" notice. What are you seeing that I am not that causes you to interpret all of this ostensibly harmful missi

by timr 5y ago

I see a picture of a link with a "false information" notice. What are you seeing that I am not that causes you to interpret all of this ostensibly harmful missing context? Sure, you can use this fact to make a misleading claim. But literally any piece of information can be used in a harmful manner. I guess we need someone to round off the points on all of our scissors so we can't hurt ourselves?

jackweirdy 5y ago
This is the post I was referring to - it was this image (no text) and a link to the above article https://i.imgur.com/8TEAXQW.png https://i.imgur.com/8TEAXQW.png I think another commenter's idea is reasonable - people are flagging false claims like this, and the link is being punished by association
- timr 5y ago
  Yes, I know what you're talking about, but it has nothing to do with the post. Someone posted a link to a CDC page on Facebook, and Facebook flagged it as misinformation. Maybe someone, somewhere used this link to argue something misleading, but as I said before, you can do that with any fact.
  - jackweirdy 5y ago
    Oh. I'm not defending labelling the link as fake news. And my post wasn't an argument in favour of this being ok. Just adding an example for the poster and any other readers who haven't seen the "context problem" first hand
cbsmith 5y ago
> timr 8 hours ago | parent [–] | on: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links ar... I see a picture of a link with a "false information" notice. What are you seeing that I am not that causes you to interpret all of this ostensibly harmful missing context? Sure, you can use this fact to make a misleading claim. But literally any piece of information can be used in a harmful manner. That is the gist of the problem. It's not quite entirely true, as taking a quote from an astronaut about how the ground on the moon didn't feel like anything on earth isn't going to convince anyone that the moon is made of green cheese who didn't think that anyway, but that is the general problem. Disinformation is a hell of a drug.

by timr 5y ago

jackweirdy 5y ago

This is the post I was referring to - it was this image (no text) and a link to the above article https://i.imgur.com/8TEAXQW.png https://i.imgur.com/8TEAXQW.png I think another commenter's idea is reasonable - people are flagging false claims like this, and the link is being punished by association

timr 5y ago
Yes, I know what you're talking about, but it has nothing to do with the post. Someone posted a link to a CDC page on Facebook, and Facebook flagged it as misinformation. Maybe someone, somewhere used this link to argue something misleading, but as I said before, you can do that with any fact.
- jackweirdy 5y ago
  Oh. I'm not defending labelling the link as fake news. And my post wasn't an argument in favour of this being ok. Just adding an example for the poster and any other readers who haven't seen the "context problem" first hand

cbsmith 5y ago

> timr 8 hours ago | parent [–] | on: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links ar... I see a picture of a link with a "false information" notice. What are you seeing that I am not that causes you to interpret all of this ostensibly harmful missing context? Sure, you can use this fact to make a misleading claim. But literally any piece of information can be used in a harmful manner. That is the gist of the problem. It's not quite entirely true, as taking a quote from an astronaut about how the ground on the moon didn't feel like anything on earth isn't going to convince anyone that the moon is made of green cheese who didn't think that anyway, but that is the general problem. Disinformation is a hell of a drug.