[zaroth]

As I recall the “misinformation” label was erroneously applied, heck even the “Russian disinformation” trope was walked out to suppress some pretty damaging factual information this election cycle.

These systems are just outright abused for political purposes. It’s just gaslighting to claim they serve some higher purpose.

I don’t think it’s illegal for platforms to censure information for obliquely political purposes, but I personally find it extremely distasteful.

[staticautomatic]

As far as I can tell, FB does not actually have a public definition of misinformation. Not long ago, I wanted to see how they defined it and tried to look it up. Searching led me to “fake news” and I learned that they call “fake news” “false news” and that if you search across Facebook.com and fb.com for “false news is” you get about 6,000 results, none of which are a definition of false news. If anyone has found a definition of these terms somewhere on Facebook please link!