Probing Facebook's Misinformation Machine

Re:Probing Facebook's Misinformation Machine by sdoering on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:51AM (#22986781)

For some years now I had not visited Twitter. Over the last three days I followed links to Twitter because they got pushed into my way.

Man was I taken aback every single time. The initial tweets referred to me were quite interesting nuggets. But once I started scrolling some distance down I was immediately in a strange land of turf wars between different groups of tin foil hat people. And people promoting their fake COVID views all over.

From that it was just a short step to adding twitter to my blocked hosts file.

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Re:Probing Facebook's Misinformation Machine by intopieces on Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:30PM (#22988643)

I have twitter, facebook, instagram, reddit all blocked. I seem to benefit from a feature in iMessage where Apple will proxy the content to show the preview in-line, but I’m not able to click through to the actual site. This is nice, because people can share funny tweets with me and I can respond to that person only, without getting sucked in.

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Re:Probing Facebook's Misinformation Machine by jlei523 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:14AM (#22987708)

Same! The initial tweets are generally ok.

But as soon as you scroll down, the comments make you want to throw up.

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