Quote Originally Posted by frogmiller View Post
Kerr! Don’t, a US senate has made Facebook owners apologise to families who have lost loved ones because of the way it directs it algorithms to show more harmful content.

Twitter or X took down a record number of misinformation and sèxual content. 1.2 million accounts were taken down. They have agreed to invest more in AI and employ more people so that they can do more.

Mis or mal information is the new buzzword to keep control of the narrative.
The Social Media companies don’t do nearly enough to clamp down on misinformation, although I accept that it is difficult to draw the line in a way that doesn’t interfere with legitimate debate.

If X did enough, you wouldn’t have seen the misleading fear p0rn spread by ‘DiedSuddenly’ when he or she implied that the Medicago operation was aimed at introducing vaccines into the food chain, which simply isn’t true. Doesn’t it bother you that you were presented with that information, accepted it and spread it further?

Isn’t complaining about ‘the narrative’ nothing more than complaining that misinformation gets called out and corrected from time to time? That is surely what should happen, particularly when the misinformation being spread is dangerous.

Try the first of the two books that I suggested. I'm not suggesting that it would change your views about anything, but you may find it interesting. We could start a MillersMad book club thread. The site certainly needs something right now to try to breathe life back into it.