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You may have missed the first for the trees. This article is about figuring out 3.8 B views of misinformation videos out of how many total views. The question

• DharmaPolice 3y ago
  Looking at things in terms of ratios seems like an odd way of judging whether misinformation is a problem. If 0.5% of the sentences I say in a day are violent threats towards children that'd be a problem, right?
  • Sai_ 3y ago
    “Won’t you think of the children?” type questions are not very useful, imho. In your case, no one (barring a few people employing child soldiers) think children are fair game to be hurt so the answer to your question is that yeah, 0.5% of statements which are violent threats to children is a problem. Covid misinformation isn’t as clear cut - reasonable people asked about the lab leak theory while yet others asked why a vax was being rolled out without holding manufacturers liable for adverse outcomes. We’ve had situations in the past when a new medicine caused children to be born with shortened arms and other birth defects. In this light, it is reasonable to wonder why we should trust a pharma company when they didn’t trust themselves. But the linked post is not even about the correctness of misinformation - given something has been classified as misinformation, how often is it viewed compared to non-misinformation videos is what they’re trying to answer.