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I prefer to do my own fact checking.
by zanethomas 5y ago
I prefer to do my own fact checking.
- wesleywt 5y agoThis is an impossible task. You are reliant on the opinion of experts who you should pay to take the time to evaluate the topic. We use to do this with proper journalism. But the internet has largely destroyed the industry.
- zanethomas 5y agoIf there is a topic I feel it is really crucial for me to evaluate then I will learn what's necessary to do so.
- colinmhayes 5y agoMost people just believe what they read on Facebook without even clicking the link. Sucks, but we can't allow idiots to be propagandized by misleading titles. Unfortunately nuance is dead.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoWho are "we", and why not?
- colinmhayes 5y agoZuck and I. Because we live in a democracy where being uninformed doesn't mean you have less say in the government.
- NullPrefix 5y agoThat is how voting works. Should dumb people have the right to vote?
- colinmhayes 5y agoYes, but society needs to do everything it can to get them to make good decisions.
- warkdarrior 5y agoYou cannot do fact checking on articles that you do not see because Facebook decided not to present them to you.
- zanethomas 5y agogood thing i don't rely on facebook for news
- SomewhatLikely 5y agoIf Facebook is demoting these stories you may never see them in the first place. Then you'll have nothing to fact check
- jjtheblunt 5y agoCan you not find them elsewhere, via Google?
- erklik 5y agoand Facebook is under no obligation to show anyone any content that they do not desire to show them. There used to be a internet before Facebook. The content showed by Facebook was interesting, fun and something people wanted so people visited Facebook for that reason. If that has changed for you, simply stop visiting. The rest of the internet is still here and that content is still out there. It is not Facebook or anyone's responsibility to put your eyeballs on that content.
- giantrobot 5y agoThere's not enough time in the day for you to "fact check" every piece of purported information you come across. You're also not an expert in all areas despite your Gell-Mann amnesia. At some point you're going to have to rely on some sort of external "fact check".
- zanethomas 5y agoI don't see the need to pay attention to every bit of so-called information streaming by. When there are topics I care about I will do what's necessary to form my own opinion, as I did with covid and the mRna injections.