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knokout64 t1_iy9gvy2 wrote

Reply to comment by yem_slave in Google and YouTube are investing to fight misinformation by Wagamaga

Isn't Reddit's biggest complaint about social media platforms that they don't do enough to combat misinformation? Either you control the information to a degree or you allow any and all "fake news" to avoid controlling what the truth is.

If you think YouTube is picking the wrong narrative then by all means they're open to criticism, but complaining about the idea that they'd try and restrict blatant lies because they might support the lies instead seems hypocritical.

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yem_slave t1_iy9ih0u wrote

Reddit is very censored and dissenting views are often banned from subs, so you are not seeing a representative sample of people, but rather you're seeing an echo chamber of people who all believe in censoring things that they don't like.

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I_ONLY_PLAY_4C_LOAM t1_iyc8jnl wrote

> dissenting views

He's not mentioning the dissenting views often are racist or anti-Semitic.

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yem_slave t1_iycsnyw wrote

I didn't mention it because they're not.

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ContinuousZ t1_iyalhou wrote

>combat misinformation

The best way to combat misinformation is through discussion and evidence. Censorship is a terrible way to combat misinformation and more often than not it gives misinformation more power.

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I_ONLY_PLAY_4C_LOAM t1_iyc8gih wrote

This so naive lol. Discussion and evidence don't matter in the face of engagement algorithms. By the time you debunk something with a nuanced conversation, 10 more conspiracy theories with no evidence are already circulating.

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