• Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Easier to trust and more accurate currently, but I don’t doubt that the algorithm to generate the notes will be internal and closed source, allowing them to utilize that trust to manipulate people.

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      2 months ago

      Except in instances when the Notes were screenshot and passed around as a joke, I don’t know how many people took them seriously on X, The Everything App.

        • themurphy@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          Just look at front page on reddit. Basically half of the headlines are misleading.

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            2 months ago

            A lot of the time there’s a comment correcting the title or article at the top though. Pros and cons with that system.

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              2 months ago

              There is, but doesn’t explain why there’s more upvotes on the post than the comment. Most people would downvote the post after reading that comment, but it’s usually higher anyway. (and sometimes it’s not, I know)

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                2 months ago

                Because people don’t go to the comments, they read the title on the front/subreddit page, sometimes vote and then move on.

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        2 months ago

        and, what happens when say the community overwhelms, say a conservative facebook group, could add a community note saying “the geese are dissapearing near hatian communities, and there are x missing cats and dogs”. While voting against notes actually reporting the Mayor, Police etc… having denied the claims and also noting that the missing animals are normal for any region of said size.