Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by umvi 1629 days ago
> I think that we have a responsibility to speak out on matters we believe in and ignore negative pushback.

You can try, but new "fact checking" norms will ensure unpopular (especially politically unpopular) opinions get censored on social media before anyone sees them
2 comments
estaseuropano 1629 days ago
This is a complicated issue and requires a careful approach. I don't think any serious fact checkers simply declare non-mainstream views as false, rather they would highlight only issues where a clear scientific consensus exist. So you flag an article about masks being ineffective and quote a clear analysis, or you flag an article about the Chinese (or US) government purposefully spreading covid, but you don't flag an article discussing the evidence for and against origin theories. See e.g. also the EU imitative on Russian disinformation:

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

link
throwaway55421 1629 days ago
Facebook and friends were screwed before they even got going.

I find it amusing that people use "getting news from Facebook" as a slur. It's stupid, but for entirely the opposite reason that they think it is.

link
CamperBob2 1629 days ago
Facebook and friends were screwed before they even got going.

I remember seeing a cool SEM micrograph of a violin at the ~10um scale at one meme site, but I'm having trouble finding it now...

link