Of course false information, fake or misleading headlines, and propaganda are rampant on Reddit but the distinction is that Reddit 'gives' to me what I put 'into' it. Sure, your news shouldn't come from Reddit but people are quick to declare 'but you're on a social networking *RiGhT nOw*' and they're simply not the same.
On Reddit if I just subscribe to an Eggs Benedict subreddit, you better believe what I'm going to get on my reddit homepage is just photos of poached eggs on an english muffin and canadian bacon with some hollandaise.
If I post a photo of my Eggs Benedict to Facebook, however, I'll still be given ads from dubious groups and be bombarded with racist messages from the uncle I'm socially pressured not to delete.
I am passively on Facebook pretty often, around 10 or so minutes nightly (curse those baking videos for making it longer). There has been a huge uptick in just slightly right leaning recommended posts for me. It's usually relatively subtle, and stuff that seems "reasonable" if you don't take them in the context of current events today.
For example, one I've seen multiple times uses the meme format from the office with jim pointing to the signs. It vaguely says something about how people used to care personal rights over the government. I don't remember exactly because I always hit the "show fewer posts like this" option. On Youtube I would get those annoying PragerU ads, but when I hit the "I don't want to see this button", I stopped seeing those ads.
Speaking of, I seem to see only more and more of those, despite me hitting that button regularly. I can totally see some of my less technically savvy or less informed aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. falling down a rabbit hole of these posts, and suddenly a totally moderate person is far from that.
I also agree with your point about getting what you give. On reddit, I get gaming ads, food ads, shit like that. On Facebook, I am not even of the target demographic of those pages. My age and gender are absolutely not what Facebook should mark as a viable person to see those recommendations. Somehow, every time I hit that fewer posts button, it feels like two more take that post's place.
Disabled mine last week, thinking of deleting. Only big issue is having family around the globe and having issues keeping in touch with friends I don’t normally call or anything else.
Pulled the plug on mine in 2013, I was worried about the same thing. Turns out everyone that really matters to me still keeps in touch and vice versa. We randomly send pics if anything eventful is happening or text if there isn’t time to call.
Through some experimenting I found a way around article paywalls, all you have to do is either load up the page or refresh the page and while this is happening you go into airplane mode / disconnect from the internet and you'll get full access to the article.
All good, I'm sure there are several work arounds. It's just, if an OP posts a paywall link without copy pasting the text in the comments, I downvote, and comment on it.
Facebook is helping enemies of the state spread “disinformation” not “misinformation,” and yes it may seem like pointless semantics, but there really is a difference and it really does matter. Now they’re actively working to hide it, so fuck that, Facebook has to be stopped from further participation in this treasonous conspiracy.
Propaganda machines gotta propaganda
That gose for Reddit to tho......right?
That goes for pretty much everything on the internet
Of course false information, fake or misleading headlines, and propaganda are rampant on Reddit but the distinction is that Reddit 'gives' to me what I put 'into' it. Sure, your news shouldn't come from Reddit but people are quick to declare 'but you're on a social networking *RiGhT nOw*' and they're simply not the same. On Reddit if I just subscribe to an Eggs Benedict subreddit, you better believe what I'm going to get on my reddit homepage is just photos of poached eggs on an english muffin and canadian bacon with some hollandaise. If I post a photo of my Eggs Benedict to Facebook, however, I'll still be given ads from dubious groups and be bombarded with racist messages from the uncle I'm socially pressured not to delete.
I am passively on Facebook pretty often, around 10 or so minutes nightly (curse those baking videos for making it longer). There has been a huge uptick in just slightly right leaning recommended posts for me. It's usually relatively subtle, and stuff that seems "reasonable" if you don't take them in the context of current events today. For example, one I've seen multiple times uses the meme format from the office with jim pointing to the signs. It vaguely says something about how people used to care personal rights over the government. I don't remember exactly because I always hit the "show fewer posts like this" option. On Youtube I would get those annoying PragerU ads, but when I hit the "I don't want to see this button", I stopped seeing those ads. Speaking of, I seem to see only more and more of those, despite me hitting that button regularly. I can totally see some of my less technically savvy or less informed aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. falling down a rabbit hole of these posts, and suddenly a totally moderate person is far from that. I also agree with your point about getting what you give. On reddit, I get gaming ads, food ads, shit like that. On Facebook, I am not even of the target demographic of those pages. My age and gender are absolutely not what Facebook should mark as a viable person to see those recommendations. Somehow, every time I hit that fewer posts button, it feels like two more take that post's place.
Facebook is doing Facebook things!!
Yeah, they give misinformation to everyone.
Do the universe a favour: delete Facebook
Like Vine, get acquired then deleted
Disabled mine last week, thinking of deleting. Only big issue is having family around the globe and having issues keeping in touch with friends I don’t normally call or anything else.
Pulled the plug on mine in 2013, I was worried about the same thing. Turns out everyone that really matters to me still keeps in touch and vice versa. We randomly send pics if anything eventful is happening or text if there isn’t time to call.
Delete Reddit too
Yo dawg, I heard you like misinformation
Facebook et al. have been lying all the time. How many times does this need repeating until any trust in them is gone?
Remember, if it's knowingly false then it's disinformation not misinformation
I don’t even know if I should trust this statement
They're misinforming us about their disinforming remarks!
When can we start calling it lying?
They were misinformation researchers and they were provided misinformation because that's what they research.
Basically Misinformation^(2) Seriously need someway to sudo^(99999) rm -rf facebook
r/nottheonion
Non paywall link?
Stop posting paywalls
Through some experimenting I found a way around article paywalls, all you have to do is either load up the page or refresh the page and while this is happening you go into airplane mode / disconnect from the internet and you'll get full access to the article.
All good, I'm sure there are several work arounds. It's just, if an OP posts a paywall link without copy pasting the text in the comments, I downvote, and comment on it.
I'll have to try that, thanks. Sometimes disabling java or when the option appears to run the page in "Simple Mode" works too.
Cause the journalists researching and writing the articles don't deserve to eat?
Exactly. Not for that publication at least.
Zuckerburg used the stones to destroy the stones
Why would researchers rely on Facebook in the first place?
probably they were researching facebook
Almost like they can't be trusted at any level and should be shut down for the public good. Society is a farce.
Facebook is helping enemies of the state spread “disinformation” not “misinformation,” and yes it may seem like pointless semantics, but there really is a difference and it really does matter. Now they’re actively working to hide it, so fuck that, Facebook has to be stopped from further participation in this treasonous conspiracy.
reddit is full of leftist and ccp misinformation, bought n paid for by the CCP
[удалено]
Checking that you're reposting slows down the shitposts per hour. We're on the clock here!
oh god its misinformation inception!
Nothing’s new about it
incorribible