• @acosmichippo
    link
    English
    42
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    but broad consensus does not mean true.

    to me this just sounds like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy. sure, whatever you guys want to believe, go for it.

    • nfh
      link
      English
      222 months ago

      I think you and the person you’re responding to both have a point. They’re totally passing the buck to their users, but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are. It’s a different set of problems to be sure, but I think it’s a preferable one

      • @acosmichippo
        link
        English
        5
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are.

        “they” (Meta) was not the one fact-checking, it was a 3rd party service. And I don’t know why you assume a social media user base would be better at it, especially with highly politicized things like climate change, vaccines, wars, etc.

        • Echo Dot
          link
          fedilink
          English
          11
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          They think that because community notes are actually fairly good on Twitter. You’d think that they wouldn’t be, but somehow the extremist idiots don’t seem to be able to outshout the sensible majority.

          Just go on YouTube and search for community notes.

          • @acosmichippo
            link
            English
            02 months ago

            “fairly good” or not, the question is, is it better than a 3rd party service like the one Meta was using.

            • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
              link
              English
              7
              edit-2
              2 months ago

              I’d assume community notes will populate faster and the way misinformation spreads this advantage makes it 10x more useful.

              You want to lock it down have some thrid party review the notes, should reduce their workload at the very least.

            • Echo Dot
              link
              fedilink
              English
              0
              edit-2
              2 months ago

              It doesn’t matter. Facebook are going to do what Facebook are going to do.

              But we know for definite that community notes actually do work at dissuading disinformation. So whatever some third-party may or may not do isn’t really relevant. Especially considering we already know they don’t do shit because Facebook is already utter cluster fuck with absolutely no recourse for the truth.

              I would also point out that community notices are already better than nothing which is of course the alternative here. Facebook all removing any kind of verification in exchange for user verification which is a lot better than removing verification exchange for nothing. So whether or not use a verification is better is irrelevant. Since no other option is being presented

              • @acosmichippo
                link
                English
                32 months ago

                Facebook are going to do what Facebook are going to do, therefore we can’t criticize what they do?

    • Pandantic [they/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      52 months ago

      to me this just sounds like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy.

      And for free, no less!

    • @daddy32
      link
      English
      12 months ago

      like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy.

      Lol this is the whole idea of the social networks - outsourcing of the work to the users (or “useds” as Stallman calls them). This used to be called “web 2.0”. In other news, this also highlights one of the shortcomings behind the idea of democracy.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        12 months ago

        What does Facebook have now, a monarchy? Their moderators are way worse than Twitter fact-checking ever was.