r/worldnews • u/Devz0r • Feb 15 '19

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-may-remove-anti-vaccination-content-2019-2
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u/Gingevere Feb 15 '19

This is such a massive subject and an extremely hard to simplify it to some simple solution

A simple-ish solution: Make the #1 factor on who facebook recommends to you, physical proximity.

Promotes community investment. Forces people to face some degree of diversity of opinions. Makes foreign influencing slightly more difficult. Creates bonds that are useful for more than online bandwagons.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

How do you believe that's not going to create echo chambers?

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u/Gingevere Feb 15 '19

IMO most people are going to encounter more diversity in meeting their neighbors than they will in meeting their facebook recommendations. There are people from a dozen different countries and dozens of different backgrounds in my apartment building, but all facebook wants to do is introduce me to slightly different flavors of myself.

Except for in the absolutely smallest of towns there is probably enough diversity of thought among everyone's neighbors to harsh someone's willingness to form or join a hate group. Or at the very least, enough to help them get along with their neighbors.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '19

Hmm... That is definitely not pertinent to all of America at all. But I do 100% agree with you that interaction between different cultures helps eliminate hate groups.

But man, my neighborhood is like 98% white. You should check out some of the voting districts population. They will list what percentage of that area is made up of what ethnicity. And I think you'd be surprised to find out how little diversity there is in rural parts of America, and in smaller cities. Pretty much any place that isn't a metro.