Maybe the answer should be "yes", because it's not true - but wait, now we having to make that assessment, and that's outside our domain
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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