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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by aiilns on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:27AM (#30010035)
How is _BMJ_ an "edge case"?

And why should Facebook and its partners decide on what the conclusions to be drawn from this story should be?

I'm sorry, but to me your attitude seems arrogant and condescending: the masses cannot tell truth from lie and cannot be trusted to reach the correct conclusions. And I suppose that, if asked, you would advocate for education with emphasis put on critical thinking.

But you can't be both for critical thinking and for this paternalistic attitude where people get their cues from the truth-arbiter du jour.

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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by philistine on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:49AM (#30010358)
Such a large part of social media is nothing but newspaper websites with the numbers filed off. With those fact-checking doodads, Facebook is getting one step closer to being a full on content producer itself.
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