One of the points I made was in reference to “community notes”. Its being pitched as a new form of moderation. But the reality on X is that almost every time, Notes only show up to the people who volunteer to respond.
They aren’t visible to everyone else. So they really don’t have an impact
They aren’t visible to everyone else. So they really don’t have an impact
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They know that you know that they don't actually believe it and are just working propaganda, so they say it anyway just to agitate you.
You know, behavior you'd expect from the 5-year-old sandbox bully.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-08/elon-musk-community-notes-on-meta-facebook-explained/104794984
It's already being discussed:
https://alethonews.com/2025/01/08/germany-green-led-agency-warns-facebook-of-potential-sanctions-after-zuckerberg-says-he-will-end-censorship-regime/
More lip service
WORTHLESS!
(I will assume threads will follow) The concept is good, but..
Elon has notes applied to him, disappear. (He also spews lies knowing they'll go around the world before "corrected")
Everyone knows they are ineffective, but it's a concept that "feels right" and therefor provides protection.
So many social networks are riddled with this way of thinking.
It’s what his father taught him.
RIP truth.
Everything good gets taken advantage of, while all bad things are amplified.
Community Note...
Post that is a harmful lie: 😏
Majority of the community that doesn’t care that it’s a lie: 😏😏
And the lie proliferates.
Start a new hobby!
I remember a world before the internet... it was so much fun!
No stress!
I have too many hobbies and to talk to friends....so sorry, not really helping here.
Social media companies should be legally required to fund measures to target and remove disinformation and be audited on their effectiveness…and fined for failure to meet agreed standards. Without this, it’s hard to trust anything on any site.
It’s the only thing that will get a handle on deliberate promotion of misinformation.
For me, facts are more important than info that later turns out to be false.
Sadly with Musk and Zuckerberg paying fealty to King Drumpf, it won’t be happening. They have the perfect propaganda machines in place.
If they truly are being unmoderated it might not be terrible. Community notes are funny on Elon's own posts.
I don't know the right solution
I think the focus should be on facts. If a company’s algorithms can’t distinguish between an article providing info on breast feeding & a pornography post, that’s an issue with the algo.
I do not doubt that it is a huge challenge, disinformation is a well used weapon of the nefarious people of this world. I would love to see a collective effort by all SM companies to fight it.
On Bluesky, the bot issue as serious yet, but that could incentivize the creation of bots.
An account got a hundred notes?
A sentient human being should check and decide if it's a bad actor (and remove the account), if it's a humor account and people with no humor keep correcting, or is mobbing by a gang of noters mobbing (and remove noters)
Also, people consistently voting the same way eventually see the weight of their votes decrease.
It’s why all the hoaxes about Zelenskyy take more time to CN now. Meanwhile, the bad actors keep trying to mass downvote good CNs.
My hypotesis was more on a "generic" platform - one who don't push an agenda.
A CN system as a tripwire to warn human sentient moderators may be a not-useless backup to cut the costs of moderation.
Elon doesn't care what's published on X, but clearly favors right-wing mis- and disinformation. Zuckerburg has now unapologetically followed suit.
If they ever broke out of the volunteer zone, it was just the adage about the truth putting its shoes on.
Then I worked out I was doing volunteer work for a billionaire.
Finally, someone in Congress has taken notice
To @ericswalwell !!!
Trump continues the con the American people by moving the goal post, so he never has to fulfill his campaign promises, like lowering the price of your groceries
Elon posts obvious lies and leaves the post up even after he has been corrected.
It says somewhere that a fool and his money will be a part.
I pray and hope sooner than later🤔🙈
The false, vulgar, racist, misogynist, hateful, or bullying/threatening statements remain.
DROP META and X NOW!!!
FB businesses will leave or find new solutions.
BlueSky and other platforms will fill the gap/market demand.
CAVEAT: X/META have sophisticated means/marketing methods to hook/tie-in users, by increasing dependencies and usage/engagement.
#MarkCuban
The war rages on, and there are other hills worth dying on. BlueSky is where to build the bunkers and dig in.
Always
Should it, no,
But all of human history shows that it is
This "feature" seems more a way to drive up user engagement than to make it easy for users to get to actually useful content. There's a reason why fact-checkers get paid: it's work to sift through and respond to misinformation
2024: Defeated by BlueSky, Zuckerberg turns Threads, Instagram and Facebook into Elon’s Twitter bullshit.
This nice young man will show you how to delete your FB account.
https://youtu.be/6fsJTrAV21g?si=6LpFB5ywfXVwIfaA
I'm good with my own personal agency.. I can think for myself thank you very much
Fact checkers, community notes, whatever.. people are sick of this cringy ass annoying spammy crap.
Good info
Source to good info
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