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Exactly. The next Facebook news feed will just fill the void, and people who blindly believe what they are exposed to will be in the same situation. Killing Facebook news feed is trying to treat the symptom while completely ignoring the disease.

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Magnifying gossip is the issue. It’s almost as if we need a few thousand people or AI with really good domain knowlege and common sense whom can somehow handle moderating the onslaught of conspiracy theories, rumors and general BS. Seems very difficult to scale on the tech side. We might be better off finding a path to building in-real life communities whom can educate each other and discuss such things civilly.

In theory I agree, but in practice people are much more emotional than we like to admit, and we come with loads of baggage in the form of preconceptions, presuppositions, and ideologies. We also have a tendency to be wrong about things sometimes (to err is human?), even in fields where we have expertise.

Could AI fix this for us? Maybe. AI isn't entirely free of the bias of its creators tho. As far as solutions to magnifying gossip and fake news, I don't really have an answer. Perhaps you are on the right track.

I think your other comment is spot-on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413662

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