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Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation

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all political campaigning is electoral misinformation. As a society, we are just going to have to deal with an untrustworthy informational environment and elevate our level of skepticism to the appropriate level

Do we want to let foreign states with an agenda to have an outsized impact? Can we have healthy debate about our country and future with them dominating the conversation with the most toxic and divisive statements?

Is our society capable of elevating to an appropriate level? Seems like we're better at escalating to an inappropriate level :/

It's not just X who's going to be struggling with this, youtube is seeing an uptick for the '24 cycle

the vast majority of misinformation (all information incidentally) is produced by the US, and amplified via US media and information technology. In the great game of narrative influence I would say that the the US is holds the aces

Sorry, did you follow the stories about the impact of Facebook on the 2016 election in the US and the following "gilets jaunes" in France?

Seems to me that we have real life examples that show that it is not enough to just "let it be".

misinformation is a key part of how politics works. This was the case before facebook, will be the case after facebook. 'Shaping the cognitive environment' is what the powers that be do. Probably best not to empower them further

> This was the case before facebook, will be the case after facebook.

Would you say that it was exactly the same before Facebook than after Facebook? I see an important difference of scale.

Scale matters.

all political information is a form of disinformation. Look at the Murdoch empire, pretty much global scale misinformation for decades. Facebook relatively minor in comparison

> all political information is a form of disinformation.

Doesn't make it all equal.

I see a difference between tailored information seen only by you on your computer in a controlled fashion and generic posters at the bus stop.

For one, if you put an unethical poster at the bus stop, some people may see it and complain about it. Whereas social networks can manipulate people on a 1-to-1 basis.

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