[–] XJOKOLAT 9y ago ↗ Stable door: closed. Horse: bolted.With great power comes great responsibility.
[–] monochromatic 9y ago ↗ There are some shady sites out there that peddle totally fake news for ad impressions. I'm fine with disrupting their business model.But what are the odds that legitimate (or even fringe, semi-legitimate) right-wing news sites bear the brunt of this movement? [–] maxerickson 9y ago ↗ I think they at least deserve a chance to try to get it right. [–] nitrogen 9y ago ↗ In my community, I could see the opposite happening. Anti-vax marked as true, scientific articles marked as fake.
[–] nitrogen 9y ago ↗ In my community, I could see the opposite happening. Anti-vax marked as true, scientific articles marked as fake.
[–] heavymark 9y ago ↗ Yes Facebook did add that feature... last year. Engadget is simply reporting on something Facebook announced they added publicly last year. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/01/news-feed-fyi-showing-f... [–] XJOKOLAT 9y ago ↗ What proportion of users do you think were aware of it?And, if left to users, considering we have the type of users who believe in a #BoycottStarwars movement, would you really want to leave this feature in the hands of said users?
[–] XJOKOLAT 9y ago ↗ What proportion of users do you think were aware of it?And, if left to users, considering we have the type of users who believe in a #BoycottStarwars movement, would you really want to leave this feature in the hands of said users?
[–] brownbat 9y ago ↗ There's a long series of experiments on a phenomenon called "the hostile media effect."Basically if you show two opposing interest groups the same film clip, both will rate it as highly inaccurate and biased against their point of view.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effectI'm excited for the results of Facebook's experiment, but fully expect this to remain an unsolved problem for the foreseeable future.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 30.5 ms ] threadWith great power comes great responsibility.
But what are the odds that legitimate (or even fringe, semi-legitimate) right-wing news sites bear the brunt of this movement?
And, if left to users, considering we have the type of users who believe in a #BoycottStarwars movement, would you really want to leave this feature in the hands of said users?
Basically if you show two opposing interest groups the same film clip, both will rate it as highly inaccurate and biased against their point of view.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
I'm excited for the results of Facebook's experiment, but fully expect this to remain an unsolved problem for the foreseeable future.