<story><title>Trump threatens to &apos;close&apos; down social media platforms</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/after-twitter-fact-check-trump-threatens-to-regulate-or-close-down-social-media-platforms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itchyjunk</author><text>Hm, is fact checking solved problem? I remember someone here had their game flagged just because it referenced SARS-CoV-2. I hear almost daily horror stories of youtube algo&amp;#x27;s screwing up content creator. As a human, I still struggle a lot to read a paper and figure out what I just read. On top of that, things like the GPT2 from OpenAI might generate very human like comment.&lt;p&gt;Is there no way to consider social media as unreliable overall and not bother fact checking anything there? All this tech is relatively new but maybe we should think in longer time scale. Wikipedia is still not used as a source in school work because that&amp;#x27;s the direction educational institution moved. If we could give a status that nothing on social media is too be taken seriously, maybe it&amp;#x27;s a better approach.&lt;p&gt;Let me end this on a muddier concept. I thought masks was a good idea from the get go but there was an opposing view that existed at some point about this even from &amp;quot;authoritative&amp;quot; sources. In that case, do we just appeal to authority? Ask some oracle what &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; is and shun every other point of view?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gjulianm</author><text>&amp;gt; Is there no way to consider social media as unreliable overall and not bother fact checking anything there?&lt;p&gt;The issue is that this is not just a random social media post, it&amp;#x27;s coming from the President of the US, and most people expect that someone in that position will not post clearly false messages, specially when those messages affect something as fundamental as the election process.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trump threatens to &apos;close&apos; down social media platforms</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/after-twitter-fact-check-trump-threatens-to-regulate-or-close-down-social-media-platforms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itchyjunk</author><text>Hm, is fact checking solved problem? I remember someone here had their game flagged just because it referenced SARS-CoV-2. I hear almost daily horror stories of youtube algo&amp;#x27;s screwing up content creator. As a human, I still struggle a lot to read a paper and figure out what I just read. On top of that, things like the GPT2 from OpenAI might generate very human like comment.&lt;p&gt;Is there no way to consider social media as unreliable overall and not bother fact checking anything there? All this tech is relatively new but maybe we should think in longer time scale. Wikipedia is still not used as a source in school work because that&amp;#x27;s the direction educational institution moved. If we could give a status that nothing on social media is too be taken seriously, maybe it&amp;#x27;s a better approach.&lt;p&gt;Let me end this on a muddier concept. I thought masks was a good idea from the get go but there was an opposing view that existed at some point about this even from &amp;quot;authoritative&amp;quot; sources. In that case, do we just appeal to authority? Ask some oracle what &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; is and shun every other point of view?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throawy1234</author><text>I was in the social media support for one of the candidates during the Democratic primaries. Because of that we had direct access to twitter and the DNC social medial group.&lt;p&gt;We noticed David Rothkop who had a decent size following and contributed to MSNBC and the DailyBeast was a registered foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates [1]&lt;p&gt;David Rothkopf had made some wild accusations against two presidential candidates who were most critical of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.&lt;p&gt;We asked Twitter multiple times that if anyone is a registered foreign agent and is constantly commenting on the US primaries and elections, that twitter should flag that account with some indicator or icon.&lt;p&gt;All Twitter&amp;#x27;s government public relation person did was to give us some lip service and didn&amp;#x27;t do anything about it.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;efile.fara.gov&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;6596-Exhibit-AB-20180927-1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;efile.fara.gov&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;6596-Exhibit-AB-20180927-1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>