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I said verifiable fact. Not opinions. Example: During the pandemic, here in America, the vaccine was available in May of 2021, and around the end of summer, everyone who was going to get it had gotten it. Biden's administration was trying to think how they could help get more fence sitters to get the vaccine. So they thought maybe a door to door education campaign would help, just people going door to door with information and hand out packets of information to help educate people on what a mRNA vaccine was, and why it wasn't something to worry about.
Well, Fox News aired straight up lies. On air, Fox News talking heads said that the door to door campaign was going to have people show up at your house WITH the vaccine and demand you get the shot right then and there. And what would be next? They could come to your door and take your guns, they could take your BIBLE. I shit you not, that's fear mongering aimed at one thing, to scare their viewership and the republican base. None of that fear mongering had any basis in reality, it was verifiably FALSE.
So that's what I'm talking about, spread lies and misinformation that can be proved to be false should be illegal for the same reasons why it's illegal to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater when there isn't a fire.
All the media outlets say stupid shit like that lol. Extreme emotions is what drives viewership for all of them.
All I'm saying is I'd rather have it out in the open (so you can see the stupidity, just like you did with Fox) - rather than censored.
How would you know Fox corp is full of bad actors without seeing actions like that? Now you know not to trust them, and the people it's connected to.
Well if they get slapped with the misinformation label, we wont trust them, they lose viewership, they fade out. In a perfect example, that is. (Meaning it all has to go perfect)
I would rather not have misinformation out in the open so we can decide their character. Some people will still see that misinformation and now it will spread.
People are not perfect. Even incredibly educated people can read misinformation and take it as truth.
As a person, I don't want to have to analyze everything said to make sure it's true. I want to be presented simply true stuff without worry. I want to believe the people in my communities.
I'd love a world like that too, and I think most people would. There's just too many different cultures and opposing views that we won't be able to have just a single truth though. Like the Palestine vs Israel stuff for example.
It'd be very dangerous if there was a small governing body of people that gets to decide what's truth and what isn't. Maybe if we could figure that out openly, with the public, and have it decentralized and no singular group could control a narrative, maybe we'd inch closer to that ideal
I dont mean going as far as a "Department of Truth", but there is a line that needs to be enforced. A wrong opinion is not necessarily misinformation. A single person stating a wrong fact as true ia not a dramatic offense in a small context.
News shows telling the public a lie as news os a problem.
I don't understand people like you.
For me, it's impossibly naive to believe that our disinformation( doesn't exist, or) will be censored as much as the disinformation of our opponents, yet that's apparently the new mainstream opinion.
And x.com is the only social media to have implemented Community Notes.
I can tell that type of drivel is bullshit, but their vast viewership isn't making that distinction. It's leading to a huge group of America who don't live in reality, and it's proving to be dangerous physically and politically. So I still think if something is a verifiable lie, it should be called as such and the spreader of that lie should face ramifications.
Fair enough, but censorship won't fix the underlying issue that people aren't taking the time to think about what they're reading/watching. It might make it worse once it becomes information "they don't want you to see"