> There isn't enough time in a no-sleep 24h day to verify every single piece of content one is reading/hearing online that same day.
If it was necessary to fact check every tweet, this would be a big problem. Luckily though, that is not a requirement. With a proper implementation, it should be reasonably easy to surface a historic list of (a subset of) any given user's incorrect statements, which provides objective evidence to distrust someone's claims and opinions. With the style of epistemology practiced by most people in 2022, everyone is going to have black marks on their history. And if we had a cultural change as a consequence of this, people might start putting some effort into speaking in the form of true statements.
> Just go to any major news site's homepage; there's at least 40 articles there, plus videos. Count the number of tweets or instas you're glancing upon on your feed, they're infinitely loading below your thumbs.
Establish a persistent and centralized list of well fact checked "untruths" (rhetoric, innuendo, etc) from popular media outlets, and we will then have undeniable evidence that can be easily referenced, making common claims that mainstream media is ~"not that bad" transparently false.
> Self-service fact-checking is not scalable.
There is an important difference between scalability and infinite scalability.
If Elon is smart, this feature could be a very big problem for belief shapers.
If it was necessary to fact check every tweet, this would be a big problem. Luckily though, that is not a requirement. With a proper implementation, it should be reasonably easy to surface a historic list of (a subset of) any given user's incorrect statements, which provides objective evidence to distrust someone's claims and opinions. With the style of epistemology practiced by most people in 2022, everyone is going to have black marks on their history. And if we had a cultural change as a consequence of this, people might start putting some effort into speaking in the form of true statements.
> Just go to any major news site's homepage; there's at least 40 articles there, plus videos. Count the number of tweets or instas you're glancing upon on your feed, they're infinitely loading below your thumbs.
Establish a persistent and centralized list of well fact checked "untruths" (rhetoric, innuendo, etc) from popular media outlets, and we will then have undeniable evidence that can be easily referenced, making common claims that mainstream media is ~"not that bad" transparently false.
> Self-service fact-checking is not scalable.
There is an important difference between scalability and infinite scalability.
If Elon is smart, this feature could be a very big problem for belief shapers.