Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ...
by mschuster91 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:00AM
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> It would be uniquely refreshing if Facebook would apply an overlay to every post that gave it a true/false and hate/love rating.
It would instantly be weaponized. Already, right-wing groups specialize in taking down antifa and LGBT pages on Facebook or Twitter by abusing the report feature. To make it worse, Facebook apparently automatically locks pages upon getting a high number of reports in a short timeframe.
You can bet that anything not from Fox News or Infowars would be flag-abused as "fake news" in an instant.
It would instantly be weaponized. Already, right-wing groups specialize in taking down antifa and LGBT pages on Facebook or Twitter by abusing the report feature. To make it worse, Facebook apparently automatically locks pages upon getting a high number of reports in a short timeframe.
You can bet that anything not from Fox News or Infowars would be flag-abused as "fake news" in an instant.