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Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by ben_w on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:29AM (#15391205)
Has the average person heard of 4-chan? If they had, would they understand it as anything different to Facebook, which they seem to trust, or the comments section under a news story, ditto?

People don’t know what accurate and trustworthy looks like. Even when things are labeled as fiction, they can have an effect - Scotish Independence became more popular when the film “Braveheart” was released, while Islamophobia went up after “American Sniper” was released. Or am I just repeating plausible but fictional urban legends that I’ve mistaken for reality?

Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by sdca on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:22AM (#15392577)
Speculation on motive begins immediately when we learn what the target was and the weapons that were used. You can't censor that without censoring the entire incident.
Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by ben_w on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:30PM (#15393635)
That is as irrelevant as it is correct. Yes, humans speculate, but we shouldn’t be amplifying our known cognitive biases by presenting wild speculation (let alone 4-chan) as if were authoritative truth.