The NYT controversy is exactly why USTech becoming Curators of Truth to combat fake news isn't as trivial or unproblematic as we might like
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The operative Q isn't whether Bret or NYT are right, but whether 3rd parties should intervene to penalize the article to combat "fake news"
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And the answer is yes they should. This is not the hard question you are making it out to be.
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What you've just done is taken an editorial decision from NYT and handed it to editors at a tech co, who're vetoing NYT's editorial decision
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No, what you've done is fixed a flaw in social media that boosts the flow of misinformation.
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Prior to social media, a few placed misinformation pieces even in NYT would have fairly small impact...
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...because there was no organized way to pass them around to exactly the audiences who would believe and be influenced by them.
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Having SM treat misinformation pieces as "fake news" and deboost/hide/cleverly manage feeds of ppl who share them does not unpublish them.
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What it aims to do is nullify the social media advantage that would otherwise be enjoyed by such misinformation.
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This practice needs to be condemned harshly no matter what the prior reputation of the source that published it was.
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