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
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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What it looks like to me is a plan to give socmed companies enormous say over what articles their users should read without an attempt ...
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to think through whether it creates a structure that can itself distort info read by users, and in more pernicious ways than the status quo
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wait, there is one factual error coming from his misreading of 2 sentences in a linked report. otherwise opinion is adj/adv choice etc
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The problem is that the entire "opinion" is counter-factual, not a topic of opinion. Minor slip-up/CYA-failure is not the problem.
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I think that stance sounds logical until you look at the democratic process which elected a denier. Convincing the masses requires leveling
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No, it requires cutting off the channels of disinformation. Letting their disinformation have mainstream platforms is what got him elected.
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Month after month of "news" filled with nothing but manufactured scandals. Cut that crap off.
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I get that the vibe is wrong, I've read it 3 times, but the message seems like an olive branch. saying burn it down digs trenches
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yet i'd say 95% of folks I agree with are taking Bret's history and his words & saying he's a wolf in sheep's clothing and he's normalizing
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but what the folks I agree with miss, is that we're the oddballs, the idea of growing future protecting our planet is abnormal
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