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Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Platform governance
Nine minutes January 6, 2021. Eleven people on shift in the trust-and-safety operations center by morning. Forty-three by noon. A post calling for the execution of the vice president sat in the review pipeline for nine minutes before a twenty-six-year-old content moderator in... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: The Story
The letter with no evidence February 19, 2020. Twenty-seven scientists published a Lancet letter declaring lab-origin theories about COVID "do nothing but create fear." The letter cited no genomic evidence.... I think community notes is a great movement in the right direction, so overall this is a good thing for society. As far as I can tell, "Fact Checking" is an orange orientation to what-is-truth, and "community notes" is a green one....