I never thought I'd enjoy Fact checkers 👀😎
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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.