All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets
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#2"crowdsourced" from "reputable" sources, right? ;)
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#3If I had enough followers and was part of this program what prevents me from harassing another user via notes and getting my followers to mark my note as helpful?
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#4How will this work when reality is partisan? The Hunter Biden laptop story was a debunked conspiracy by the “experts” until it wasn’t, and the recent Chinese election data stolen “conspiracy” (as declared by the NYT) turned out to be true. Yet day after day the stories about Trump and Russia were blasted by major media… until that was totally debunked.
It’s like one side decides what is true and the other side is conspiracy until the facts come out, then it’s forgotten completely into the memory hole.
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#5Eh, in practice I don't have an issue with this, in principle though I disagree because they are targeting "misinformation" and not "disinformation". How I see it, disinformation is flat out false and fake. With misinformation though it starts getting subjective, a headline may be correct when you think about it one way, or misinformation if you think about it another way.
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#6If I had enough followers and was part of this program what prevents me from harassing another user via notes and getting my followers to mark my note as helpful?
If you have enough followers, what prevents you from harassing another user anyway? Crowdsourced, targeted harassment already happens all the time.
This seems like it would just be a more convoluted and troublesome means to an already available end.
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#7How will this work when reality is partisan? The Hunter Biden laptop story was a debunked conspiracy by the “experts” until it wasn’t, and the recent Chinese election data stolen “conspiracy” (as declared by the NYT) turned out to be true. Yet day after day the stories about Trump and Russia were blasted by major media… until that was totally debunked. It’s like one side decides what is true and the other side is con…
The same way democracy works. Shitty, but less shitty than any other way.
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#8I feel like in practice this may be ripe for brigading.
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#9If I had enough followers and was part of this program what prevents me from harassing another user via notes and getting my followers to mark my note as helpful?
If you have enough followers, what prevents you from harassing another user anyway? Crowdsourced, targeted harassment already happens all the time. This seems like it would just be a more convoluted and troublesome means to an already available end.
But this would be like putting an official “sanctioned by Twitter” badge on that harassment.
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#10Oh boy. Crowdsourced facts. More equals better than, right?! Ridiculous.