It’s necessary for people to be able to discuss topics even if wrong or uncomfortable in pursuit of truth. Yes, there will be bad faith actors, but they are better than a MoT setting truth.
This was totally idiotic and ideologically driven.
I hope a lesson was learned, but I fear it wasn’t and this will repeat itself because people can’t help but want to drive agendas.
We understand that manually curated feed doesn't qualify for Section 230 protection. In this case, automatically curated feed should be legally the same, given that the automation is wholy created and maintained by Facebook or other relevant platform, for the express purpose of scaling out their manual processes.
Facebook whistleblowers stepped forward a few days ago and warned that “vaccine hesitancy” scores are being assigned to posts via AI and those with high scores don’t go viral.
It doesn’t matter if the information is true or false, if the content discourages one from taking a vaccine the AIs will censor it.
In addition whats the difference between foreign propaganda, domestic propaganda and corporate propaganda?
Even domestic propaganda becomes suspect when you find out a government officials child has major business dealings with X or Y country. This happens in both parties.
The only thing worse than government sensorship is privatised mafia sensorship
I think they knew there would be issues like this and they would sometimes get it wrong. This is why they tried to avoid being the Ministers of Truth by having so called "fact checkers" determine what is true.
The credibility of these fact checkers and social media should both be tarnished.