I never thought I'd enjoy Fact checkers 👀😎
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Be careful with supporting this. I don't think Twitter should be creating 'context' to be inserted in people's tweets, however enjoyable it is to see them do it to Biden.
In many situations, facts and context can be created by cherry picking and specific wording to create the impression that it is fact and not opinion.
It just isn't necessary, and gives Twitter much power to leverage their own views by piggybacking off the popularity of others.
What I mean is if Twitter issued their own tweet saying their take on this, nobody would see it or care. Who cares what Twitter thinks. But forcing their take on it into the person's tweet is a whole different thing.
For the more logical mind, prone to research, you are 100% correct. This 'Twitter context' is unnecessary and...morally corruptible.
But the masses have been trained for decades to rely on context being handed to them. You are not going to change that behavior overnight. Q did not change that behavior in the masses in 5 years. Q was not going to turn Walmart Karens into 4chan/8kun bread bakers en masse.
So much effort would not have been made to Flip major Media companies if Q thought they had a more effective and smoother (read: least loss of life) method to compete with those "trusted Voices". No. Instead, commandeer those trusted voices and use them.
I believe Twitter FactChecking™ will be rendered unnecessary post Great Awakening.
This.
Remember the 80% is trained from birth to not be critical of authority and to not-think and only feel emotions. From movies to video games, all media was built on a cycle to reduce the human mind that consumed it to an easily-manipulated child-like state that thought with very strong emotions, and no real logic.
The fact logic is not taught in k-12, when even basic logic is ESSENTAL, far more so than Algebra, is not a mistake.
If people are not taught things like 1 black cat pisses on rugs doesn't mean all black cats piss on rugs, and basic statistics reality that correlation doesn't nessicarily mean causation, why would they learn? They would use the "common" sense of a peasant lynch mob, which historically were wrong 80% of the time or abouts, not the logical reason of proper examination.
No this is good.
As long as Mr. Musk does this to EVERYBODY EQUALLY, its acceptable. The key is everybody equally.
The problem with old Twitter is they were doing it only to the right/conservative side of the political split, creating an unequal, two-tiered system.
Mr Musk claims they took over twitter to fight misinformation AND end censorship. This is an interesting take as long as its applied equally.
Exactly.
While it is funny to see these losers get fact checked…we gotta think bigger picture.
If this system is what it claims to be: readers submit "context" and then other readers get a chance to vote on it being "helpful" or not, with only the most "helpful" being shown, then it's acceptable.
The reason I say this is because it is essentially the same thing as a high-ranked reply, especially comparable to a system like Reddit or here that orders replies/comments by "upvotes."
What I like about this new wave is that it doesn't explicitly say if something is true or false. It doesn't just say "mostly false; missing context." It simply provides the additional context.
But, no, it's not perfect. The primary issue with it is the "Reddit effect." That is: if a user comments something that seems intelligent in the way it's worded, often making superficial connections or false analogies to things the reader already understands, but is actually objectively untrue, it will get upvotes. Then new readers will see the upvotes, which lend it credibility, and will be more likely to upvote it further.
Readers now read this and are "primed" by this genuine misinformation. Then they get weirdly defensive to the comment reply that tells the guy he's wrong and explains why, downvoting him. It's like people convince themselves immediately, then reject being "proven wrong" just after.
Reddit is MUCH worse than that.
On reddit a political bot, or paid poster posts a "propaganda reply" challenging the thing/spewing the party line, and then that same actor then uses a bot farm to mass up-vote that comment so it gets overwhelming top visibility. And honestly if a comment gets more than 100 upvotes, organic user voting cannot over come that comment at the point, and they cannot extinguish that bad comment without a brigade of some kind, which are absolutely against Reddit's TOS. And reddit puts a lot of admin resources into finding out who is brigading downvotes and banning them.
They are most likely mass-upvoting using bots, though I cannot rule out that reddit secretly charges fees in back-channel "handshake" deals from all kinds of state and NGO actors, that one can pay reddit for upvotes as long as a you a CCP-friendly leftist.
And NEVER forget Reddit has a minority ownership by the CCP's front TenCent, which is also the largest % shareholder, which operates using "activist minority shareholder" tactics to amplify their voice and bully around the larger body of un-unified reddit shareholders. So effectively Reddit is a CCP organization pretending to be an American social media platform.
I'm sure they are. But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a very specific effect that occurs when you have a system like Reddit's (or here's) that props up comments that based on "upvotes."
All the political stuff is true, but it's different. The effect I'm describing occurs even on completely innocuous posts about random technical subject.
If the qualifying statement is irrefutably true, it is not "their take" but fact. I see no harm in this whatsoever, and since we war against falsehood and propaganda, I think it's great. We ARE, after all, on the Great Awakening website. So, what aspect of awakening normies is off limits???
I don't want twitter inserting their take on my tweets or anybody else's. I don't care what Twitter thinks. You might like this fact check, and I do also, but Twitter could change tomorrow. I think I made my point very clear. It is unnecessary for Twitter to insert Twitter's take in people's tweets.
Fair enough.