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> it means people who care about the content being right will have to engage more with the Meta products to ensure their worldview is correctly represented. To
by dotancohen 2y ago
> it means people who care about the content being right will have to engage more with the Meta products to ensure their worldview is correctly represented.
To me it sounds better for large actors who pay shills to influence public opinion, like Qatar. I disagree that this is better for either Facebook users, or society as a whole.
It does however certainly fit the Golden rule - he with the gold makes the rules.
- morley 2y agoI was under the impression that Community Notes were designed to be resistant to sybil attacks, but I could be wrong. Community Notes have been used at Twitter for a long time. Are there examples of state-influenced notes getting through the process?
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- BryantD 2y agoTwitter's Community Notes were designed to be resistant to sybil attacks. Meta is calling their new product Community Notes, but it would be a mistake to assume the algorithms are the same under the hood. Hopefully Meta will be as transparent as Twitter has been, with a regular data dump and so on.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoQatar is not well known for paying people to bot on social media. They play the RT game by using their news network Al Jazeera to do that instead and give their propaganda a professional air. The first country to do this was India[1]. Israel has special units in the army to do this[2]. At this point so many countries pay people to do what you say, but Qatar doesn't, from what I can tell. If you have proof of it, I'm all ears. I was cautiously optimistic when this was announced that India and Saudi Arabia (among others, incl. Qatar) might see some pushback on how they clamp down on free speech and journalism on social media. But since Zuck mentioned Europe, I fear those countries will continue as they did before. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_IT_Cell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_IT_Cell [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23695896 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23695896
- gitaarik 2y agoHow is that different from fact checkers? They can also be driven by large actors who pay shills to influence public opinion? Only the name "Community Notes" is less misleading then "Fact checkers".
- red_trumpet 2y agoFact checkers are employed by Meta?
- gitaarik 2y agoWho are pushed by the government to censor vaccine side effects: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-says-biden-pushed-meta-to-remove-posts-on-vaccines.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-says-biden-p...
- gitaarik 2y agoAnd you are trying to say that makes it better? Sure, I'll trust the leadership of this huge commercial company, famous for lots of controversies reagarding privacy of people. I'll trust them to decide for me what is true and what is not. Great idea!
- DecoySalamander 2y agoYou can just pay people, regardless of their place of employment.