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by NovemberWhiskey
2077 days ago
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>EX: if a user doesn't want to see NSFW stuff, or trolling, or "misinformation", or any other offensive content, then there could be general categories, that describe those things, and the user can have that as a setting to not see that stuff. Let me go out on a limb here and say that no-one is going onto Facebook looking to find misinformation. They may be looking for stories that appeal to their prejudices and be willing to suspend disbelief for those stories. But no-one is going to tick the box saying "please show me stuff that is actually definitively false, and potentially dangerous to my person". So the problem will simply move along to how the "misinformation" tag is being applied and the biases at play there. |
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Completely disagree. I would absolutely tick that box, as would many other people, specifically because we don't necessarily automatically trust whatever authority is "deciding" what is misinformation or not.
Instead, I would prefer to research an issue, by looking at multiple sides, and make a judgement, as opposed to having some minister of truth controlling what I am or am not allowed to read.
> is being applied and the biases at play there.
But the point is, that if you don't trust a certain group or source's opinion on what "misinformation" is, then you could choose a different authority on that.
IE, the tags for what is or is not "misinformation", would be community controlled, and you could pick which community or group to use as the "source" for this tag.