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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Instead of me defending what's reality right now, why doesn't one of you opinionated disinformation people actually sketch out a vision of how this would work in practice. Who's doing the truth patrolling? In a world where much news is becoming op-ed, what's held to the standard?
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What's funny is even if you're right, we're still fucked. In a world of wildly divergent values, truth alone is enough to get to Civil War II levels of polarization. Nobody needed to do a viral deepfake of the Kavanaugh hearings for that to become what it did.
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I hate to go all Notebook, but it is conceivable that a way out of this is not in ‘the tech’ but ~within ourselves~. Were a credible authority to argue convincingly that (for eg) sharing fake news was morally wrong, then we might see some changes
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Yes. The only way out of this is human culture around media and virtualized identity changing. Most polls show major differences between pre and post-Internet generations and their views on things like privacy, or discernment between real and fake news. But that takes a while.
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I don’t see all of your posts bc twitter doesn’t bump you to the top of the 1000 people I follow every day. Are you being censored? Maybe if you complain loud enough you can convince someone you are.
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Maybe if you get some technologically illiterate hyperpartisan politicians involved, you can sell that story to the mainstream as a free speech issue. Still isn’t.
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If you engage with people who think they are shadowbanned - and I periodically do - they will frequently tell you it’s because their friends don’t see all their stuff. People outside of the industry don’t get how the feeds work.
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I agree the shadow-banning people are probably deluded (or very vane and full of themselves). Doesn't mean that down-ranking doesn't constitute a form of back-door censorship. You're advocating for it as a way to remove disinformation, in fact. Removal is removal.
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Downranking isn’t removal. What many ppl are advocating for is better management of inauthentic distribution patterns, not a response to a specific narrative or POV. Censorship implies a desire to stifle a particular POV. You know this.
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