Let lies spread and incompetent scammers run countries, that it?
It may not be chance that some of the first efforts by tech companies to censor "misinformation" have gotten it wrong. This is a harder problem than most people realize. Impossibly hard, at the edges. And this is not the sort of problem where the edges don't matter.
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> first efforts jeez paul
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What does "getting it right" look like?
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Deciding what's true and what's false, which gets extremely hard at the edges.
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Do you have any good resources framing the challenges and solutions used to address it? Thanks!
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The reason is people in charge of correcting 'misinformation' are not some supreme all knowing gods but people with their own agendas, biases etc like everyone else. Allowing self styled arbritrers of truth to decide what should and should not be seen by everyone is very bad idea
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Indeed it is not hard to see what type of people would be appointed by social media sites as fact checkers. These are the very types who are eager to tell you they hold all the approved opinions - in essence people you should avoid at all costs.
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But should it even be attempted? It almost seems like the downside is unlimited while only have very little benefits. Imagine this applied historically to your favorite paradigm proven wrong. Imagine Darwin banned from twitter.
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Perfectly stated
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