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by 46756e
1642 days ago
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Not saying this justifies anything, but at least the reasoning for the high false positive rate is simple. Facebook gets a lot of bad PR for having lots of misinformation. It makes sense from a business perspective to overcorrect, because general public is way more angry about potential misinformation than people having their normal posts taken down. Again, not saying it’s justified, but having 1 major anti-vaccine post get through would be way worse for public image then 100 Christmas greetings being taken down and then corrected. |
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It may feel that way from inside Facebook, headquartered in a place so left wing it's basically decriminalized theft. It doesn't look that way from many other parts of the world, where many people believe that "misinformation" is a dystopian propaganda term meaning any statement unacceptable to the hard left, that "fact checking" is a joke and that all kinds of important and useful information is being censored by tech firms.