Because the alternative is the government. Would you prefer the government tell us what the truth is?
Comment on Meta has HOW MANY people working on "election integrity" ahead of the 2024 election?
Kaboom@reddthat.com 7 months agoWhy should meta decide what are “reliable sources of information”?
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Kaboom@reddthat.com 7 months ago
In my mind, social media sites shouldnt decide what is truth. Thats why I use lemmy.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You haven’t answered the question.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Terrorists.
thantik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s practically impossible for individuals or governments to fact-check every piece of information effectively at the scale social media companies operate at. Social media companies have the resources and technology to implement automated and manual fact-checking processes to handle this volume.
They also have the only direct control over their platforms, needed to implement measures to fact-check in the first place. It’s their platform, so they should have control over it. They have a responsibility to combat misinformation, given the huge amount of influence they have over politics.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yet, they are often wrong. It isn’t up to social media to decide what the “truth” is.
A good example is facebook blocked the hunter laptop story even though it was true. That impacts elections and that isn’t their job.
People should be able to read and evaluate the information and make their own decisions.
Now I will caveat that with i don’t mind them blocking meme and crap like that. I do not mind them blocking legitimate news outlets. That isn’t their job to be the keeper of the ‘truth’. That is why I don’t use facebook. They spread propaganda and not information.
thantik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nothing about the hunter laptop story had any merit whatsoever. You are a great example of why people can’t be trusted.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The story has merit. That is absurd to think otherwise. It wasn’t Russian disinformation like Facebook claimed. It was legit.
You want to claim I listen to propaganda but you think a story about Hunter’s laptop with emails and photos doesn’t have merit? That is someone who has bought the party line. Not only do you lose any credibility with such an ignorant claim, but it also shows you have never reviewed anything from the laptop. You are just parroting what you read from a “fact” checker.