someone explain to me how anything on facebook, twitter or any other social media site with personal accounts for self-posting has any kind of news “authority” that people take it seriously?
I mean before myspace, etc. existed, everyone just made their own blog and if you read something on someone’s blog, you’d give it the little weight it deserves. But suddenly it’s on Facebook and it’s automatically valid?
Are people really that stupid? I mean they must be if Russia somehow used social media to change people’s opinions or even voting decisions.
Maybe we need to raise people’s education level. Because there’s no way the problem is ever going away on facebook, they can’t hire a human reviewer for every single poster who will make the correct decision every time about the content. Yesterday it was myspace, today it’s Facebook, tomorrow it’s something else, you can’t single out a site, you gotta get people to think twice, or better yet block bad content themselves.
Maybe FB should lock people down to their literal, physical family and friends by default until they pass a content test and prove they can determine “fake news” on their own.
