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by bertil
2731 days ago
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Oh, I certainly don’t think it’s a black & white situation. I was just taking the point of view of someone who needs to make a decision from a situation where it’s unbalanced. Actually, pretty much every product Facebook has launched had a well-known unbalanced impact: “get out the vote” efforts get more young people out and they vote more to the left; detailing right to vote drives a subset of potential voters (younger, recent citizens) which isn’t balanced either; same for informing about candidates’ Page, or their program. I suspect that getting a Hans-Rosling/Steven-Pinker-like effort to counter-act spurious arguments with actual statistics would also not be neutral. All are on principle laudable efforts; all don’t have a neutral impact on the vote. I am able to name a right-wing rag because that one is in the press; in general, I stay away from the nastier stuff. As I mentioned in the first paragraph: I care about the smartest of the people who disagree with me and contextualised, nuanced, balanced information. Neither PragerU, the Daily Stormer or other come close to that. |
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