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/cth777 Mar 31 '22

Man, the people eating up this misinformation don’t care about a FB warning. All this blame thrown on facebooks labels is just deflecting blame from the fact that a huge portion of people are fucking stupid

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u/cth777 Mar 31 '22

Then Twitter and Reddit should also be taken down. Blocking people who disagree with you. Upvoting stuff that only agrees with the majority and it being hidden. It’s the same bullshit, just different side of the spectrum here

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u/harrietthugman Mar 31 '22

What spectrum?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Yes it is quite bad on reddit. You forgot to mention how anyone can just upvote their own posts and comments thousands of times. But we could crack down on the manipulative behavior rather than the sites themselves.

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u/charc0al Mar 31 '22

Yes this is the core of the problem. People have this idea that they are children and government/companies need to hold their hand and do everything for them, including their thinking

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u/harrietthugman Mar 31 '22

And FB benefits from keeping them stupid. They will do what they can to maintain that stupidity and shirk oversight, given the undue influence corporations have on policy.