Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over Covid-19

Re:Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over C... by hrktb on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:01PM (#26603667)

One issue is that it’s asymmetrical. Made up statements have more resonance and shocking value than well thought rebuffs or ridicule.

If you accuse your opponent of eating babies at breakfast, other parties will have a hard time to find something as punchy, and some minority of people will swallow your statement. Throw around enough of these and you’ll have a large base covered, with your opponents left scrambling for boring or after the fact retorts that won’t have the same reach.

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Re:Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over C... by aetherson on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:48PM (#26603992)

And that is why you, yourself, believe lots of wrong things like this, right?

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Re:Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over C... by hrktb on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:34PM (#26604887)

I think that yes, I am effectively exposed to random baseless lies, and only a few of the voices crying foul will ever reach my eyes.

For instance I read a headline about future rising petrol prices due to the stuck Evergreen boat, and honestly I have no idea how true it is, don’t care enough to go down the rabbit hole, but still remembered it as an information, and might subconsciously be influenced by it on some decisions.

This is less likely to happen on fields I have decent interest or expertise in, but that only represents a tiny fragment of the information we consume everyday.

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