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No promoting content, no need to flag misinformation.

• gunapologist99 5y ago
  As others have pointed out, the major social platforms all ban content regardless of reach, and even in private messages.
• TheParkShark 5y ago
  I fully agree with this. It flys in the face of what I have even seen recommend on HN for TikTok. I’ve seen posts saying the algorithm on TikTok is the best and it gives great suggestions. I guess my question to you is, do you think TikTok has a superior algorithm to Facebook/YouTube or is promoting content on any level going to lead to misinformation?
  • lmm 5y ago
    Just as a foreign newspaper can be the best way to find out the actually important things going on in your country/culture, maybe a foreign algorithm (or rather algorithm-moderation complex - I suspect facebook recommendations have a lot more manual tuning than anyone would admit) will be better at recommending in a neutral way. (TikTok of course has blatant biases on particular issues - but they're issues that are less relevant to most westerners than the things which Facebook/YouTube recommendation is biased about).
• tonyaiken 5y ago
  The problem is sometimes misinformation attracts far more people and therefore just like promoted