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Didn't Zuck recently announce that he's getting rid of fact checkers, on the pretext that the parties hired to do fact checking are biased and introduce censors
by kazinator 2y ago
Didn't Zuck recently announce that he's getting rid of fact checkers, on the pretext that the parties hired to do fact checking are biased and introduce censorship and unfair false positives that get accounts shut down?
Was it just a cost reduction: fact checking takes effort and those checkers have to be paid? With the result being situations like this?
- notfed 2y agoYes, which makes this claim more extraordinary. (And to be fair, I don't think there's extraordinary evidence presented here.)
- maeil 2y agoIt doesn't; it makes the ban more likely if anything. See how on certain topics the censorship immediately increased as Musk took over Twitter.
- NikkiA 2y ago> Was it just a cost reduction No, it was clearly an attempt to court Trump, unfortunately 'not enough ass kissing, yet' according to the trump team.
- unicornporn 2y agoBoth. Clearly both.
- the-grump 2y agoTheir phrasing was "mainstream discourse" wouldn't be censored. I guess Linux needs to go mainstream first.
- DoctorOW 2y agoI'm pretty sure we're entering the year of the Linux desktop :)
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI've been using Linux as my full time desktop since 2022 now, having used it at a prior employer as my main OS for dev work for about 6. Windows has hit my limit, I only use it if an employer provides it.
- breakitmakeit 2y agoKowtowing to the king
- germandiago 2y agoThere is no such thing as unbiased information. So FWIW, I think fact checking is really just a fight for censorship. Official lies and half truths instead of lies from everywhere intermixed with truths. There are so many ways to do it wrong even if you tag info as true or fake and in principle you do it with good intention. For example it was the case that certain information was tagged as fake and when claimed for a correction the administrators "could not do anything" (Spain cases researched by Joan Planas by doing requests himself personally for the biggest official agency in Spain, called Newtral, which is intimately tied to the Socialist Party in Spain... really, the name makes me laugh, let us call war peace etc. like in 1984). But they were way faster in doing it in the other direction or often found excuses to clearly favor certain interests. Now put this in the context of an election... uh... complicated topic, but we all minimally awake people know what this is about...
- voidUpdate 2y agowhats the bias on "1+1=2"?
- beeflet 2y agothe decision to include the information or not include it in the discussion in the first place, regardless of whether it's objective information
- alt227 2y agoBias towards base 10 numbering? How did you know 1+1 wasnt wanted to be calculated in binary?
- kazinator 2y ago1+1=2 has a correct interpretation in any base 3 and higher. How we know that it wasn't to be calculated in binary is that the digit 2 occurs. We have to have a reason to suspect that it was intended to be binary, otherwise we are inventing an inconsistency that isn't there in order to find a false or not-well-formed interpretation.
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