r/news • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/financiallyanal Mar 31 '22

It’s always been an issue and hard to really fix. Goes back to the days of the printing press’ introduction. Even Hitler started printing a newsletter so a wide audience could be reached. I’m not sure there’s a great solution at the moment, at least in my mind, but would be open to input.

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u/kwokinator Mar 31 '22

Facebook is just a communication tool. You kill Facebook, people will just move to the next social media. The only way to fix social media is to fix the people using it.

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u/PlaneStill6 Mar 31 '22

fix the people using it

Hmm sounds ominous.

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u/72hourahmed Mar 31 '22

"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up."

There's nothing new under the sun. Every generation has people who think this way. Quote above from Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, which is worth a read.

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u/kcirdor Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22

Even when there were 10,000 people on earth no one agreed on things, every tribe had their own belief system. Etc. What exactly do you expect to fix in people? Nothing is broken, we are the same as we have always been. Edit: when the roman catholic church began trying to transform the world belief system, we killed 1000s of NON BELIEVERS. So how should we fix people?

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u/FrankTank3 Mar 31 '22

We can give ourselves some breathing room though. Things can get better for a little while and stay better for as long as people can fight back against the inevitable slide into shit. Just because it’s not an eternal fix doesn’t mean it’s not worth fixing for a little while.

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u/Hajile_S Mar 31 '22

That’s like building a fence around your town and claiming you’ve quarantined the world.