Re:Ask HN: Correct response to Russian election bots/propoga...
by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:17PM
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What really needs to happen is that people need to start thinking much more skeptically about stuff their friends retweet/like on Facebook/forward on email/otherwise endorse in some fashion.
And also they need to think a lot more critically about what they see in the "news", since the news organizations have shown themselves to be biased, sometimes significantly. They even (maybe especially) need to not blindly accept stuff that comes from their preferred news source.
But that takes debugging people, not just algorithms. That's a hard problem to solve...
Re:Ask HN: Correct response to Russian election bots/propoga...
by PaulHoule on Saturday October 14, 2017 @01:25PM
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Actually you can protect yourself by NOT using facebook and developing tools to put yourself in a filter bubble you control as opposed to one that controls you.
And also they need to think a lot more critically about what they see in the "news", since the news organizations have shown themselves to be biased, sometimes significantly. They even (maybe especially) need to not blindly accept stuff that comes from their preferred news source.
But that takes debugging people, not just algorithms. That's a hard problem to solve...