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Did the people who pushed the “Fact Checking” system ever consider what the people reading the misinformation the fact check would appear under would think when

Did the people who pushed the “Fact Checking” system ever consider what the people reading the misinformation the fact check would appear under would think when they saw the fact check? Because I really doubt the thing going through their head is “wow this might be wrong”. Trust in any government, media or institution has already been completely burned for those people and things like “Fact Checks” to them only makes the misinformation seem more legit. I’d bet if you actually engaged with those people you’d discover this system accelerated misinformation not curbed it.

rdtsc 5y ago
Very good point. That’s exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union. People craved banned things. Books, ideas, articles, authors, items from the West, etc. Being banned automatically increased their appeal.
mandmandam 5y ago
That's a nice idea, but not actually true. > “When people saw those warning labels, 95% of the time they did not go on to view the original content,” the company says. Moreover, if an article is rated “false” by their “fact checkers”, the network will “reduce its distribution”. This means that, while an author or poster is not aware that censorship is taking place, the network could be hiding their content so it is not widely disseminated. The piece above was censored by FB as misinformation, before they apologised for the error. - https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-leak-theory/ https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-lea...
- whywhywhywhy 5y ago
  > the network will “reduce its distribution” That's a different subject, I'm talking about what's happening in the persons head when they see it. Not about if the network actually just shadow-censors it so they never see it in the first place.

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Did the people who pushed the “Fact Checking” system ever consider what the people reading the misinformation the fact check would appear under would think when

by whywhywhywhy 5y ago

rdtsc 5y ago
Very good point. That’s exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union. People craved banned things. Books, ideas, articles, authors, items from the West, etc. Being banned automatically increased their appeal.
mandmandam 5y ago
That's a nice idea, but not actually true. > “When people saw those warning labels, 95% of the time they did not go on to view the original content,” the company says. Moreover, if an article is rated “false” by their “fact checkers”, the network will “reduce its distribution”. This means that, while an author or poster is not aware that censorship is taking place, the network could be hiding their content so it is not widely disseminated. The piece above was censored by FB as misinformation, before they apologised for the error. - https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-leak-theory/ https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-lea...
- whywhywhywhy 5y ago
  > the network will “reduce its distribution” That's a different subject, I'm talking about what's happening in the persons head when they see it. Not about if the network actually just shadow-censors it so they never see it in the first place.