Spot The Troll
2020-09-22 17:08:21.855475+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Copied over from Facebook:
A number of my friends have linked to https://spotthetroll.org/, but... it seems like their criteria are kinda loose, and this is more like an exercise in "guess what criteria we've used to decide who's a troll and who isn't" than anything. I mean, sure, some of these posters are indeed identifiable individuals in the real world, and some of them aren't, but in the case of several examples here, if they're actively pushing misinformation, does it matter that occasionally they post a snippet of humanity?
The real problem is that we let the social media aggregators decide which posts we see (and which ones we're shown over and over and over again, even when the original poster didn't intend to make that strong a point) in order to sell "engagement".
Anyway, blog, y'all. Or publish on IPFS or SSB or something so that we can get some disintermediation going here.