When will the media realize the Facebook misinformation problem isn't easily fixable via humans or AI, is endemic to a planet's-worth of humans interacting unmediated via social apps, and will always be there in some form, assuming there's a semblance of free speech?
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Replying to @antoniogm
But nobody afaik is saying it can be _fixed_; they're saying it can be _mitigated_ more than it currently is.
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Replying to @rezendi
Sure, but even at that level we're still fucked. The recent MIT Twitter study (biggest credible study to date) showed that real, live humans spread 6x more misinformation than bots. Unless you remove the right of posting nonsense by humans, there's no immediate solution.
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Replying to @antoniogm
Sure there is. Stop optimizing for engagement, by which I mean, stop showing people posts just because lots of people have engaged with those posts in one way or another.
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Replying to @rezendi
Assuming social media exists in some form like today, I can't see that going away. Twitter couldn't exist without it. Neither could FB.
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Replying to @antoniogm
Sure it could. It did for years. It wouldn't be near as successful or profitable, true. But "there's no immediate solution" is very _very_ different from "there's no immediate solution consonant with their business model."
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Replying to @rezendi
You're saying we're going to somehow arrange that near-trillion-dollar companies will opt to manage themselves in some stilted, self-limited form...just like that? Without the 82nd Airborne parachuting into MPK and detaining Zuck?
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Replying to @antoniogm
No, but I am saying "the problem is fixable, but Facebook will choose not to implement any fix, because doing so will slash their profits" is quite different indeed from "the problem is unfixable," and the resulting media attention re that non-decision is richly deserved.
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I find it strange to be the social media pessimist in the room. I would claim that FB could expend whatever reasonable resources (and even its profit margin isn't infinite), and we'd still be mostly screwed.
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Replying to @antoniogm @rezendi
Jon, please listen to this, then think about how one would fix the problem :https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil …
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Marcelo P. Lima Retweeted Marcelo P. Lima
Also, decentralization (coming):https://twitter.com/marceloplima/status/1059822453764116481?s=21 …
Marcelo P. Lima added,
Marcelo P. Lima @MarceloPLimaReplying to @antoniogm @noUpside @fmanjooCould not agree more with Antonio here. Now, imagine if a totally decentralized info network really takes off, as is the wish of the crypto folks. Then you’ll have nobody in control, and nobody to blame. But at least it’ll give the media something else to talk about.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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