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Your future laid bare ...

Just reading an article on NPR News... Below are two paragraphs lifted from said article where right wingers equate fact checking with censorship...

If Trump wins, this is your future... Good luck!

The Stanford Internet Observatory, a prominent research group at Stanford University studying how social media platforms are abused, has lost its top leadership and faces an uncertain future amid a sustained right-wing campaign targeting the study of online falsehoods.

Ohio, who has spearheaded efforts to discredit researchers through his chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, posted on X on Friday: "Free speech wins again!" and accused SIO of being part of "the censorship regime."

Full article here if interested
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/g-s1-4570/a-major-disinformation-research-teams-future-is-uncertain-after-political-attacks
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Theyitis · 36-40, M
I generally appreciate the work of the fact checkers; that said, do you think it makes much difference whether or not social media sites are allowed to remove or at least fact check fake news? I read somewhere recently a suggestion that misinformation doesn’t matter much because it doesn’t actually fool a significant number of people anyway. In this polarized era of hyper partisanship everyone just believes whatever they want to believe.
Convivial · 26-30, F
@Theyitis unfortunately true... But just imagine where e will be in 5 years with no facts that can be believed
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Theyitis · 36-40, M
@Convivial I read an article that suggested some solutions that seemed sensible to me, but I don’t know if the article will get enough attention for the solutions to be seriously considered by the people most able to implement them. I think the author, Jonathan Haidt, writes a lot of good stuff. Here it is: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/