Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News
by emodendroket on Sunday January 21, 2018 @11:49PM
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What seems likely to me is that people share obviously fake news not because they see it has a lot of likes but because it confirms things they already believe.
Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News
by themagician on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:36AM
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What they see is often determined by those counts in the first place, and what people decide to read/comment/share is more often than not because a post has a lot of likes/comments. Then they share it to get likes for them self.
If the only incentive to read/share/comment was a genuine understanding or willingness to share and participate the entire space would be different.
Remove the counts and people have no external validation for the legitimacy of a piece of content. They actually have to read it. What we have now is a system where someone sees a headline, “Proof Obama birth certificate fake!” With 100k like and 10k comments and they don’t even read it and just comment, “I knew it!”
When you pick up a newspaper you have to actually read it. You can’t just look at the headline and see how many people agree with it before you can form any kind of opinion.