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Re:Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute by wolfram74 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:29PM (#29007751)
One content agnostic approach to improving signal to noise is the tendency for deep chain sharing to be mostly false/misleading content. Introducing a forced copy-paste hurdle after the chain gets, say, 4 deep, would be content agnostic, but probably improve the quality of what get's spread.
Re:Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute by smsm42 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:10AM (#29010383)
> the tendency for deep chain sharing to be mostly false/misleading content

Does it rely on some specific research? I mean I'm sure there's a lot of viral stories that are false. But there's also a lot of viral stories that are true - or at least no less true than what you'd commonly see on network TV or read in major newspapers, like NYT. I am not sure why it'd be obvious that something that is shared a lot is necessarily false.

Re:Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute by sayhar on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:42PM (#29015709)
This is a great example of the kind of stuff we want to be talking about and looking at. Design changes that apply across the board.

You could imagine us swapping notes, and doing some research as a group, to see if this is indeed an idea that would work. And then spreading that information to everyone, including the platforms themselves.