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Which profit driven advertising based search engine or newsfeed is built around delivering contradicting points of view?
by svachalek 5y ago
Which profit driven advertising based search engine or newsfeed is built around delivering contradicting points of view?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- civilized 5y agoReplace "profit driven such-and-such" with "print newspaper" and the rhetorical question works equally well. I think the worst you can say against social media is that it feeds you low-quality highly-partisan sources if you seem to like such sources. But your ability to seek out better or contradicting information is not diminished. If anything it is far greater than it has ever been. "Stuff that is against $my_favorite_belief" is a Google search away. Wikipedia alone will usually give you a fairly balanced treatment of a topic with extensive references to diverse perspectives and evidence.
- Rury 5y agoAmusingly, I fail to see how such an engine would resolve the problem. Groups of people would just choose the point of view they liked, and label the other as misinformation and... we're back to the original topic.