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Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Speech liberalists
The Skokie principle In 1978, largely Jewish ACLU lawyers defended neo-Nazis who wanted to march through Skokie, Illinois — a community where one in six residents was a Holocaust survivor. The lawyers did not agree with the Nazis. Several had lost family in the camps.... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Open process advocates
The Croatian War edit war In 2007, a Wikipedia editor noticed seventeen claims in the Croatian War article sourced to a single nationalist historian. The editor tagged them, opened a talk-page discussion, invited editors from Serbian and Bosnian WikiProjects.... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: State regulators
Seventeen minutes Fifty-one people were murdered in Christchurch on March 15, 2019. The killer livestreamed it on Facebook for seventeen minutes. The AI did not flag it. The video was shared 1.5 million times within twenty-four hours.... 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.... Conversational Junk Food
It recently dawned on me, the need for a soapbox forum that aspires with the intention of accuracy of facts. Facebook started as a great place to keep in touch with long lost friends and family, to share pictures, and such. For a primary source of news that is true, not so much!... The AI Safety case for UpTrust: AI "Facts" 40% from Reddit, 24% from YouTube, 20% from FB
I knew this to be true but nice to see the numbers: This good to remember when you get info from LLMs. But also, in a non-UpTrust world it gets worse: "User Generated Content" on these sites is becoming increasingly AI generated (our startup accelerator is literally teaching all...