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From reading the abstract, it seems like an exercise in circular logic.
by agomez314 5y ago
From reading the abstract, it seems like an exercise in circular logic.
- olsonjeffery 5y agoPlease expand upon this argument.
- laverya 5y ago"Republican leaning users were banned ~5x more often than Democratic leaning users, but they also shared misinformation more as decided by we-promise-they're-neutral fact checkers and the average American, so there's no discrimination against Republican leaning users" Which to me means "there's no discrimination unless the fact checkers and average American discriminate", also known as "there's no discrimination unless there's discrimination", which is circular logic.
- alwayseasy 5y agoClaiming misinformation and opinion should be treated as equals is probably the problem. Most open democracies have agreed misinformation can't be treated equally.
- JMS2021 5y agoHunter Bidens laptop was fact checked by various outlets but we found out later that was a lie. Who owns the fact checkers?
- alphabettsy 5y agoYou mean the claims being made by the Trump camp were unsubstantiated? Because that happened and they were at the time.
- belltaco 5y agoThat's the exception that proves the rule. Fact checkers rarely can be wrong. The overwhelming amount of times they are very correct. If anyone thinks I am wrong, they can list a dozen times fact checkers were wrong.
- ghostpepper 5y agoWhat would this list look like? A list of posted removed for being misinformation but that were actually not? Not particularly surprising such a thing does not exist
- laverya 5y agoI'm not saying they should be treated the same. I'm saying that "there's no discrimination because the majority agrees there's no discrimination" would not be accepted in almost any other scenario.
- macinjosh 5y agoFor whose definition of misinformation?