Please read @jackshafer on the fake news moral panic and why the 'cure' may be worse than the diseasehttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/the-cure-for-fake-news-is-worse-than-the-disease-214477 …
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Replying to @trevortimm
Misses the point entirely. Facebook already incentivized this. It has a controlling algorithm. It's already not neutral.
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Replying to @zeynep
fake news can be a problem and also there can be plenty of reasons we shouldn't want them deciding what's real news and what's fake
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Replying to @trevortimm
That is not the question. They are already deciding what to incentive, what to hide, and what to make financially lucrative.
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Replying to @zeynep
I would prefer they didn't expand that power. What you're saying is "it's not about censorship, it's about controlling what ppl see"
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Replying to @trevortimm
It's about incentivizing, yes. Not using the power they already have to fan worst flames in society isn't expanding their power.
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Replying to @zeynep @trevortimm
"Censorship" isn't remotely related to this discussion.
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Replying to @zeynep
sure it is. no one has agreed on definition of "fake." Many ppl's lists contain partisan, advocacy, and misleading sites--not fake.
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Replying to @trevortimm
I don't think lists are the way to go. I'm wary of them. Though, if you cannot agree that there is no "Denver Guardian" or that+
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..the "Pope endorsed Donald Trump" is not true, that isn't freedom, that is nihilism. Still lists aren't going to work.
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