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[–] 52 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I hate community notes, it's a cost free way of fact checking with no accountability.

I also hate these big international tech companies. Forget too big to fail, these are too big to change. We are all techno peasants and they are our tech lords

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I hate community notes, it's a cost free way of fact checking with no accountability

    And it lets certain communities brigade the notes with misinformation/disinformation to try and control the narrative.

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  • [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I get what you're trying to say, they can incentivise accuracy and they do at least prompt people to be more accurate lest the community holds them to account. But what i don't like is that there is no standard that the notes are held to and there is no accountability if either the original post or the community note are wrong.

    I also don't like that the social media publishers are pushing the fact checkers onto the community to be done for free, but at the end of the day they own the community note and can delete it if they don't like it. We are doing their work for them and taking accountability away from them

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ironically, for authoritarian communist countries that recorded high rate of newly minted billionaires in the past five years, China and Vietnam are doing something right cracking down on billionaires.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Very fair, the persecution of Jack Ma was very interesting. Haven't heard of what happened in Vietnam though?

    You shouldn't need to be authoritarian to crack down on these systems though. I really liked what I saw Lena Khan doing in the US, what Brazil did to twitter or what Julie Inman Grant did here in Australia

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is a Vietnamese billionaire who is found guilty of scamming her victims. The court ordered her to pay what she stole within a deadline or else she will face execution. I don't remember if she is ordered to pay either only a portion or all of what she scammed.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Who holds fact-checking companies accountable?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Lawsuits. As it stands the US supreme court is that social media companies can not be held liable for the things their users publish. Fact checking companies can be sued, news companies can be sued (see fox news and the voting machines lawsuit), Facebook can't be held responsible in the same way

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