Re:Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image
by ashtonkem on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:50PM
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It’s not clear to me if Twitter has handled it better, or if they had a self selected audience that made their techniques more effective. I don’t see why attempting to flag misinformation would work on Twitter and fail on FB for reasons other than the people who use it.
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I can think of several reasons why that would be the case.
The easiest one is just that Twitter might have more competent developers and product managers working on that problem than FB does.
The more sinister option is that FB knows that the kinds of things that end up being misinformation often drive engagement, so maybe they don't try as hard.
(Agreed, though, that it's not clear that Twitter handles this better than FB.)