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Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

#11

Post by 0x7f800000 »

emodendroket wrote: post #8

This is a frankly awful idea. I do not want Facebook acting as some sort of arbiter of what information is truthful. The cure is worse than the disease.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Trump-supporting extended family voting down CNN news stories as "not credible."

Expect mass brigading by The_Donald.

Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

#12

Post by sergiotapia »

0x7f800000 wrote: post #11
emodendroket wrote: post #8

This is a frankly awful idea. I do not want Facebook acting as some sort of arbiter of what information is truthful. The cure is worse than the disease.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Trump-supporting extended family voting down CNN news stories as "not credible." Expect mass brigading by The_Donald.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Bernie-supporting extended family voting down Fox news stories as "not credible."

Expect mass brigading by /r/politics.

Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

#13

Post by emodendroket »

0x7f800000 wrote: post #11
emodendroket wrote: post #8

This is a frankly awful idea. I do not want Facebook acting as some sort of arbiter of what information is truthful. The cure is worse than the disease.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Trump-supporting extended family voting down CNN news stories as "not credible." Expect mass brigading by The_Donald.

I suppose that's possible, but I expect that, like Google's attempts to address the same issue[0], the biggest loser in this change is going to be independent news sources.

[0] https://medium.com/@evanpopp/google-changes-its-algorithm-to...

Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

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Post by excalibur »

goalieca wrote: post #6

> “There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, wrote in a post on Friday. “We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective.” Is this truly ignorance or is it malice?

It's arrogance. Zuck wants to be in control of which sources are seen as trustworthy and which are not, but he doesn't want to actually be on the hook for making these decisions. So he implements a faux-democratic facade, and gets to make the actual calls behind the scenes by tweaking algorithms. He wants to have his cake and eat it too.

Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

#15

Post by oculusthrift »

sergiotapia wrote: post #12
0x7f800000 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Trump-supporting extended family voting down CNN news stories as "not credible." Expect mass brigading by The_Donald.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Bernie-supporting extended family voting down Fox news stories as "not credible." Expect mass brigading by /r/politics.

yeah only one side routinely falls for russian propaganda, downright lies and breitbart.

Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

#16

Post by themagician »

This is the opposite of what they should have done. Shows just how much of an echo-chamber Facebook has become. This is just adding another metric by which garbage can be made legitimate and vice versa.

Facebook would be a much better platform if they removed the like and comment count from every post. It’s those numbers that lead people to believe that garbage is legitimate in the first place. By hiding these numbers it would force people to think for themselves.

Same thing with YouTube. Fake News becomes real news when it had enough views, likes, upvotes, comments, etc.. These counts don’t really need to be shown to the end user.

Re: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

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Post by emodendroket »

oculusthrift wrote: post #15
sergiotapia wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is worse than that. Imagine your Bernie-supporting extended family voting down Fox news stories as "not credible." Expect mass brigading by /r/politics.

yeah only one side routinely falls for russian propaganda, downright lies and breitbart.

Charges of being Russian tools have been hurled at everyone left and right of the DNC (for instance they were going after Jill Stein).
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