Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages

Re:Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:04AM (#24089920)

The thing is, history is written by the winners. Depending on which side wins ultimately wins the cultural and political battle, I could see future school children learning in history class how Mark Zuckerberg was a hero for standing virtually alone for the principles of free speech when all the other big media and big tech companies sought to censor conservative voices. If the other side wins, then Mark Zuckerberg will be vilified as an ally of the horrible, racist alt-right.

History, and how history views stuff is not a passive thing, but an active thing based on winners and losers.

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Re:Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages by tsimionescu on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:20AM (#24089994)

This is an old trope, and only half true. You only have to look at the Bible to see that some figures who absolutely won in their lifetimes and for many years afterwards can nevertheless ultimately be remembered as demons - King Herod and Pontius Pilate being good examples here.

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Re:Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages by Svip on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:37AM (#24090079)

I thought the trope 'history is written by winners' is not just that the winners of the time when it happened, but more importantly the 'winners' (i.e. rulers) of the time when the story is being told. Our perception of history change, because the powers that be (i.e. the winners) change.

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Re:Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages by fiblye on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:54AM (#24090393)

And Rome became a Christian empire and the story that remained was what we know today.

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