Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
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#2Objective truth as revealed to us by the anointed technocrats and fact checkers has been accepted by partisans where it suits their biases. Questioning these official truths amounts to blasphemy in the social media space.
The premise of democracy rests upon the concept of free and open debate. If we cannot trust the public to consume information without hand holding, why should we trust them to vote on issues which impact our lives and property? Ironically, censorship is enacted in the name of protecting democracy.
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#3Who defines "misinformation"?
The mainstream media?
"If the news are fake imagine history".
People need to understand that NO ONE can define what is "misinformation" because all sides have incentives to lie.
This is purely thought policing.
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#4Who defines "misinformation"? The mainstream media? "If the news are fake imagine history". People need to understand that NO ONE can define what is "misinformation" because all sides have incentives to lie. This is purely thought policing.
I look out my window and see it's chucking it down
I post "It's currently sunny where I live"
That's misinformation.
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#5Who defines "misinformation"? The mainstream media? "If the news are fake imagine history". People need to understand that NO ONE can define what is "misinformation" because all sides have incentives to lie. This is purely thought policing.
I look out my window and see it's chucking it down I post "It's currently sunny where I live" That's misinformation.
To compare "its sunny but I said it's raining" and the media reporting complex is beyond stupid.
How can you even compare?
It's silly that there exist people in the modern age who still believe the news.
And it's these lying news (who are private owned) who define "misinformation".
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#6Objective truth as revealed to us by the anointed technocrats and fact checkers has been accepted by partisans where it suits their biases. Questioning these official truths amounts to blasphemy in the social media space. The premise of democracy rests upon the concept of free and open debate. If we cannot trust the public to consume information without hand holding, why should we trust them to vote on issues which i…
I agree and disagree with this simultaneously. I don't think they should add restrictions like this however I will paste a tweet I tweeted today of what I'd love to see from Twitter:
>I'd love a filter where Twitter only shows real people who have verified their ID with a passport. No companies, no bots.
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#7Who defines "misinformation"? The mainstream media? "If the news are fake imagine history". People need to understand that NO ONE can define what is "misinformation" because all sides have incentives to lie. This is purely thought policing.
Also I must say it's ironic that on a site with a bunch of programmers you still get downvoted for posting the fact that the media lies and that you cannot do anything other than laugh when the media decides to become "disinfo fact checkers".
Do people really believe that when a company says "we will become independent fact checkers" that that is even possible?
Did you learn nothing from your past experiences of what happens when a company says "we will become an independent fact checker, TRUST US, WE WILL NEVER LIE AND BE 100% HONEST AND OBJECTIVE".
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#8Regardless of your view on "misinformation", this sounds like a stupid idea that's meant to cover Twitter's butts in the short-term.
The goal of any social platform should be healthy engagement. Where is the research that this change will foster that? Twitter isn't really the place to be testing half-baked ideas.
Also, misinformation is coming from mainstream media as well as conspiracy theorists. At least conspiracy theorists are trying to find the truth. Twitter doesn't seem to acknowledge that, so what we're doing is creating digital totalitarianism? That's their great idea?
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#9Sounds good to me. Twitter is not really slowing down the like action, but it will say to you only “hey, this may be a fake news, are you sure you want like it?”. People are stupid, in a perfect world this is useless but we live here...
Re: Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
#10Objective truth as revealed to us by the anointed technocrats and fact checkers has been accepted by partisans where it suits their biases. Questioning these official truths amounts to blasphemy in the social media space. The premise of democracy rests upon the concept of free and open debate. If we cannot trust the public to consume information without hand holding, why should we trust them to vote on issues which i…
True censorship is when government does it. If you go to jail for promoting some information, that's censorship.
Twitter and Facebook are part of "the public". You are even using right now a website very heavy on "censorship", or how I call it "moderation". If you don't follow HN guidelines you will be silenced. The efforts by members of public to reduce spread of misinformation and polarization is part of why we should trust in public to handle information. But if you do not like HN, Twitter, Facebook you can look for another website.
Apparently Parler is getting recently popular as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook moderation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler