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reddig33@lemmy.world 7 months ago
YouTube’s loaded with disinformation about everything.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
“Use this eye mask to protect you from 5g while you sleep” yes, such a thing existed, and it was removed from amazon for putting out harmful radiation.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
YouTube is filled with whatever people fill it with. Some of it is misinformation, some of it is (obviously) super valuable and helpful information. It is not YTs job or responsibility to be the arbiter of truth.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Are you okay with tech oligopolies being the arbiters of truth? You can’t see how that might be problematic!?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can’t see how that might be problematic!?
Stop being condescending. I asked an open question to give you ample opportunity to elaborate without presumption.
We’re talking about removing misinformation and flat out lies, not “being the arbiters of truth” as if someone where to control a narrative from behind the curtain. I know the Fediverse gets its underwear pretty wet on that one and it’s sometimes absurd to the point of being obnoxious.
Debunking has been a exercise on the internet for a long time and there are plenty of third parties that are quite reliable. YouTube already incorporates that to a degree and it’s not a foreign concept. There is plenty of popular and blatant material on there that could easily be subject to review without going to ridiculously extreme scrutiny that paralyzes all our thoughts and actions.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I agree with tech oligarchs should not be arbiters of truth. But I’m concerned about them using that power to sensor critics. Like if a whistle blower called out a Twitter manager as a pedophile. What’s stopping Twitter from using it’s arbiter of truth power to convince everyone that information is false. But I also recognize that there are more commonly scammers who make false claims on Twitter and not getting them taken down will result in potential harm to random people. I think there should be a third party fact checking system but then you have the same problem of potential bad actors abusing systems to shift information to profit themselves. So I guess the best I can think of right now is a flagging system. Ultimately Im growing more and more to think the rute of the misinformation problem is that humanity is just getting worse and worse. We are leaving in a word with a population of good people decreasing while caluss people who just want take what they can become more common. We need more good people and not good as in you believe the right thing but good as in you believe what you believe that sertan things are bad and others are good. Not just blindly believing one group is ideal and can do no wrong even when they contradict themselves. Just look at our partys what does it mean to be Republican and what does it mean to be Democrat. They both exist to contradict the other. There is no mission accomplished on ether side, only we won this battle, onto the next one.
scytale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Not just ads, but actual content creators themselves. If a channel has someone calling themselves “Dr.” and giving out medical advice, 99% they are a chiropractor.
johnyrocket@feddit.ch 7 months ago
And don’t forget that mr Beast is gifting all his subscribers 100$ if you just send a pic of your social security vard
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
Which is why we need downvote buttons by default for those videos. People say it’s unnecessary, but you at least have to let the upvotes go to zero if there are that many downvotes.
silverbax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only YouTube says downvotes are unnecessary, users want them back and never wanted them removed.
Mac@mander.xyz 7 months ago
We need laws that make it illegal to disinform people for profit.
silverbax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are, and have been, but Republicans constantly try and repeal them, calling it ‘deregulation’.