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Would it also be okay if Twitter would turn down the volume of some of political topics in US or in whatever country you live in? Might be instead it should let
by SXX 4y ago
Would it also be okay if Twitter would turn down the volume of some of political topics in US or in whatever country you live in? Might be instead it should let you decide what topics are you interested in?
- calderknight 4y agoYou're not really engaging with your parent's point, which is about misinformation. Would it be OK if Twitter allowed misinformation about the miltary operations in the Ukraine to run rampant? Would it be OK if Twitter censored pro-Ukranians (because they share a lot of misinformation)?
- SXX 4y agoWar is not COVID-19 with bunch of anti-vaxxers running around. Twitter can't possible tell what is misinformation in a war.
- calderknight 4y agoNot sure how this is meant to relate to my comment
- aftbit 4y agoIMO yes it would be totally OK if Twitter allowed misinformation (on almost any topic) to run rampant. How did we get into the position of expecting a platform that explicitly gives microphones to a huge variety of people to then turn around and police those people to make sure they're not saying false things? What happened to "trust nothing you hear and only half of what you read"? Determining what is true and what is false is not the job of the platform, but the reader.
- pseudo0 4y agoI would expect that indicating interest in a topic overrides global default settings. For example, I followed a number of accounts about the war, and I see a significant amount of Ukraine content. Maybe there is a x0.5 global default setting, but there is another "topic interest" variable somewhere doing a x10. Right now people are just cherry picking lines in a giant codebase without knowing how all the pieces interact.