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Franck J's avatar

"People don't understand me because they're wrong" strikes again

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Adam Singer's avatar

Pretty easy to be on the right side of this one, if you're on the side of the censorship-industrial complex at least consider if you are with the bad guys. This post isn't political. Also, if you can't understand why an election was lost, well, there's probably no helping you.

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Franck J's avatar

There's nothing more political than this post

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Franck J's avatar

Also pretty easy to claim you're on the "free speech" side when you're from the dominant class

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Adam Singer's avatar

The fact that all the misinformation researchers and fact checkers lean one way shows why we should wish the community to do this and not individuals. So that becomes inherently democratic and truth-seeking which is what America is.

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Giulio del Bufalo's avatar

Is it possible that one side is a lot more likely to spread misinformation though? While I think you make some good points on the flaws of a fact checking approach to Social media, I think you're completely ignoring the objective truth that there is a deluge of misinformation coming from one side. Yes there's misinformation from the left too, but volume and intensity wise it's not comparable.

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Adam Singer's avatar

Yeah of course, thus we want the community to do this, who is comprised of sufficient voices to be able to get a balanced view of things.

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Franck J's avatar

Truth-seeking? Nice story, bro. USA was built on lies. Hollywood spread fake news long before the eX-app. Remember Iraq 'weapons of mass destruction'?

BTW why referring to USA (that are not 'America')? I thought you were talking about social media.

This looks like more a Biased Take than a Hot one.

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Adam Singer's avatar

Nihilism to think USA was built on lies, honestly. I'm sorry you feel this way.

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