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Internet Fact-Checkers with de facto censorship capabilities funded by shady corporate interests. What could go wrong?
by rgrieselhuber 5y ago
Internet Fact-Checkers with de facto censorship capabilities funded by shady corporate interests. What could go wrong?
- baq 5y agotakes a look at facebook no moderation at all could happen
- criddell 5y agoLots of things could go wrong but nobody realistically expects perfection. Do you think the fact checkers have ever taken down anything that was total bullshit and potentially harmful? Probably, right? So some things could go wrong, but hopefully many more things go right. I also hope the process isn't static and evolves after failures like this one.
- josephcsible 5y ago> So some things could go wrong, but hopefully many more things go right. I think way, way more things go wrong than right with "fact checking".
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoThis was all figured out in 1517, letting the clergy be the sole arbiters of information does not end well.
- mannanj 5y agoIt couldn't have been figured out, because we kept the 1st Amendment for a reason. We figured not having the ruling class/big corporations/government/big media be the sole arbiters of information truth doesn't end well either.
- IshKebab 5y agoYeah and they figured out how to deal with disinformation on social media too, which existed back in the 1500s.
- criddell 5y agoI bet most of what they take down is bullshit claims like Bill Gates put a tracking chip in the COVID vaccines.
- bdhska 5y ago> Do you think the fact checkers have ever taken down anything Aren’t the people who take things down censors (not fact checkers)?