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Tuesday, 30 January 2018

An example of Dunning-Kruger in action

Oh FFS.

Though of course, there is as yet no data (and probably won't be for some time) as to whether the overall effect is positive or negative. Users complaining are easy to spot; users accepting the information are not.

As the FBI’s investigation into Russian election interference reaches a fever pitch, Facebook rolled out a new News Feed alert Monday night. The bulletin told users who followed pages created by Russian trolls that those pages have been removed. And some of the affected users did not like this.

A brief search revealed that numerous people believe that this is an act of censorship by Facebook. Some users argued that they should be allowed to decide what’s “true, fake, or otherwise,” a challenge that’s bound to be a slippery slope in this era of algorithm-based confirmation bias.

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-users-cry-censorship-after-being-told-which-ru-1822552451

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