Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
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Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
#2"The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment" - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2321584121
Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
#3I deleted my Facebook and Linkedin accounts years ago and am never going back.
Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
#4I’ve deactivated Facebook for about 15 years. Hopefully my belief in fake news is correspondingly low.
It’s tough though; for all the bullshit that comes at you through these social networks, there is a lot of genuine personal connection too.
Having shunned most social networking for double digit years I do feel “cleaner” for not having to wade through all the crap, probably comparatively less anxious about the world in general, but also undoubtedly more isolated too.
No easy answer…
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#5It is still unclear to me how we expect these platforms to filter "misinformation" given that 1) It's not in Meta's interest 2) who gets to decide what is and is not fake news ie "who watches the watchman"? and 3) the human base desire to gorge on junk, of one form or another.
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#6I would love if there was a Nielsen-rating equivalent for fake news outlets.
Having worked in AdTech and Pulisher Analytics for about a decade, I know that orgs are measuring fake news viewability and content type + quality, so it'd just be nice to see a company making that digestible for people.
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#7Facebook is easily more harmful than TikTok and should get the same treatment.
Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
#8It is still unclear to me how we expect these platforms to filter "misinformation" given that 1) It's not in Meta's interest 2) who gets to decide what is and is not fake news ie "who watches the watchman"? and 3) the human base desire to gorge on junk, of one form or another.
I agree, but we don't really need platforms to filter misinformation so much as to stop knowingly turbo-charging it.
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#9Deactivating Facebook for a lifetime improves;
mental wellbeing, personal satisfaction, the development of quality relationships, reduces anxiety, reduces depression and improves ones belief in oneself and humanity.
Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
#10I’ve deactivated Facebook for about 15 years. Hopefully my belief in fake news is correspondingly low. It’s tough though; for all the bullshit that comes at you through these social networks, there is a lot of genuine personal connection too. Having shunned most social networking for double digit years I do feel “cleaner” for not having to wade through all the crap, probably comparatively less anxious about the world…
We need to go back to "the old ways", that is, people just need to pay to use the internet. Compute and storage has never been cheaper. Instead of a service subsidized with ads, we each host our own software and just pay AWS (or whoever) for the bits we flip.