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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Replying to @zeynep
glad we agree a lot of people have different definitions of "fake" and that would be problematic!
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Replying to @trevortimm
Actually, I think there is a lot of common ground on "fake"—you have no society without it—I just don't think lists will work.
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Replying to @zeynep
you've written so much great stuff on the problems with algorithms. It's weird you think they'll solve this complex problem here
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Replying to @trevortimm
Not solve, but improve. Nobody is censoring anything. They already have rules. They should have much better rules.
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I'd be for nixing the fraudulent stuff from ad and feed network—to stop everyone else competing with them—but that's tiny group.
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Replying to @zeynep @trevortimm
Such cases are few, though—Denver Guardian type stuff. If we literally cannot agree that's fraud, I think there's no hope.
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Replying to @zeynep @trevortimm
But the crux of the issue is to improve the financial and attention incentives they already have set up via algorithm & policy.
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