Re:Birdwatch, Twitter's new collaborative fact checking system
by tomjen3 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @01:34PM
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Sorry, but no. I tried following people with different political perspectives than mine, and it was a total shit show. These people don't have incentives to post well-thought-out arguments. They have incentives to bander to the base, telling them how smart they are and how bad the people who disagree with them are.
And I purposefully chose a person who had other qualities outside of the political opinions that I very much admired. If the Twitter algorithm were to just show me things outside of my buble, it would be even worse.
And I purposefully chose a person who had other qualities outside of the political opinions that I very much admired. If the Twitter algorithm were to just show me things outside of my buble, it would be even worse.