Wanting a bot to promote verifiably false information is fucked up. Wanting a bot to conflate multiple separate stories into one narrative is fucked up.
You and I may be fine with easily observing falsities but it has become readily apparent over the past 20+ years that literal fake news is having a measurable and long term impact on our society and planet. I fully agree that having access to multiple perspectives is fantastic and we should all want that. The issue is that this particular platform goes well beyond that.
Most humans are not intelligent enough to understand what they’re reading even when they are told what they’re reading is inaccurate https://lemmy.ml/post/17790884/12168067
Wanting a bot to promote verifiably false information is fucked up. Wanting a bot to conflate multiple separate stories into one narrative is fucked up.
You and I may be fine with easily observing falsities but it has become readily apparent over the past 20+ years that literal fake news is having a measurable and long term impact on our society and planet. I fully agree that having access to multiple perspectives is fantastic and we should all want that. The issue is that this particular platform goes well beyond that.
Most humans are not intelligent enough to understand what they’re reading even when they are told what they’re reading is inaccurate https://lemmy.ml/post/17790884/12168067