Comment by lobocinza
1 year ago
> Maybe that is the problem, it is seen as pro/anti X instead of facts/lies.
What I meant is that there are more notes correcting pro-China lies than anti-China lies. So the removal of community notes would benefit pro-China propagandists.
> If you ask this, you miss the point. How exactly do you expect me to tell a true note from a false one? The medium is the problem here.
Use your head. Do your research. Trust your guts. I think you're expecting impossible things from technology.
> As long as it prevails before the heat death of the universe that’s OK, right?
No, it's not right. It should be quick but I have no way to tell how long it took for the better note to prevail. AFAIK it is quick enough.
> The algorithm they use to present one community note can be used to capture feedback and sort tweets instead. Problem solved. People have better access to balanced views but are not being nannied by the platform or elonsplained what is truth.
Nobody wants that. With community notes you can choose to ignore the context but you see the tweet. With your proposal people would just no see some tweets, they would lose agency.
> Use your head. Do your research.
Exactly. Just show me tweets well-sorted and let me decide. Don’t tell me “here is truth” (which is what “here is context” is intended to look like).
> right. It should be quick but I have no way to tell how long it took for the better note to prevail
You can’t. Because the implementation is botched.
> Nobody wants that.
Nobody wants community notes as is. Anyone who wants them only wants them because it’s a great way to disseminate disinformation.
> With community notes you can choose to ignore the context
Just like you could have chosen to ignore lies in the actual tweet without any community notes adding yet another layer of lies, only harder to ignore because it is now called “context” but really is just some guy’s opinion that won a popularity contest.
The context should just be a top reply, but then who would pay Elon 8 bucks to show up first?