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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by koolba on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:33PM (#24781264)
Limiting distribution to filter out what you don't want to rise to the top has the same effect as explicitly picking winners.

Think of it like shooting the tires of all the cars you want to lose in a race. Sure you didn't push the winner across the finish line, but you made it damn near impossible for anyone else to even get there.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by Hamuko on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:38PM (#24781316)
Yeah, but that's still not editorial control. And maybe we do actually want Twitter to pick some winners. I don't think the platform needs any more death threats, Russian-backed misinformation campaigns or other bullshit.
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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by rightbyte on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:45PM (#24782595)
What if Russian missinormation is a Russian misinformation campaigne to induce paranoia and there are no actual misinformation ...

How about a straight forward algorithm for the feed instead of some hugely adbiased mess.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by hef19898 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @03:32AM (#24785884)
And this is exactly what social media does all the time, or rather their recommendation algorithms. Which, for some reason, is no problem at all. Now that the bias of these algorithms is changing, also by directly intervening, it is a big problem.
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