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Wow crowdsourcing truth that's super great. I see no problems at all with this. It's not like angry partisans on one side would create and push fake stories and
by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Wow crowdsourcing truth that's super great. I see no problems at all with this. It's not like angry partisans on one side would create and push fake stories and news about another horrible atrocity that person of an unpopular group that would lead to mass violence and genocide. Nothing like that has ever happenned with social media tools in countries like Mynamar.
I for one am worried though about what if bad people try to use mass brigading to flag blatantly true information, like how the COVID vaccine is 90% effective at preventing you from getting COVID. I think there should be some official oversight by a body like the federal government or something to make sure that only real "misinformation" gets flagged. Like for example it is well known that many hateful Neo-Nazi racist homophobic Klan members went out of their way to post bad reviews of the Amazon Rings of Power series because they were racist, bigoted, and radical reactionaries that want to destroy the foundations of America, then hid it behind compliants of "poor storywriting" and "glacial pacing".
In this example Amazon stepped in to eliminate information that was not correct, because the people who shared it were bad people. We know they were bad people that wanted bad things because they didn't like what was good, and it was good because it did good things.
This is a digression but highlights my point. I think this is a good thing to crowdsource fact checking, but should be reviewed by an official board to ensure that things don't get fact checked as misinformation that are actually 100% true, such as the efficacy of masks, or the fact that terrorists far right Neo-Nazis laid siege to the capital of Canada for months, and that things that are clearly misinformation such as questioning at all the reliability of masks, or discussing the impact of the COVID lockdown. Get flagged appropriately.
I also think twitter should do nothing about the bot problem that has been clearly evidenced to be happening on there since the person that shared that leak is probably a closet Neo-Nazi homophone since he associates with Elon Musk who is a billionaire and inherently evil.
- aschearer 4y agoEdgy.