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Re:Should social networks tell you if you’ve been following ... by sJ646U9k6c6gME9 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:19AM (#24577856)
> Why can't we peer review this stuff and let the "market" decide what is true.

In a sense we already do. Right-leaning and left-leaning groups already believe mostly non-overlapping sets of “alternative facts”. Each side builds its own narrative not so much because of hate for the other side, but because in aggregate the total amount of misinformation has eroded the potential for credibility of any person or statement that doesn’t come from one’s own “in” group.

In today’s Internet you build your own picture of what’s true. Everything else is noise.

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Re:Should social networks tell you if you’ve been following ... by andy_ppp on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:49AM (#24578084)
When I see “Hydroxychloroquine is not able to cure COVID-19” is it better that warning is flagged by the community or by Twitter. I prefer a community solution; saying it’s not possible is IMO a lack of inventiveness around how the tagging could work. This also scales much better.
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