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The fact is there was a time when the liberal bias of the tech press and big tech employees encouraged tech companies to start trying to call out (mostly conservative) lies on their services.
The fact is getting into the business of declaring what is true or false in politics is an unwinnable battle given how much biases affect our perception of truth. It doesn’t help that one party started changing laws over it and many have sued over fact checking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/
@carnage4life I find your phrasing odd, it seems to imply that a) there are no objective facts where politics are involved; and b) the tech press has been politically biased.
a) is to surrender to nihilism, because especially these days, everything is political. Facts remain facts, regardless of whether we want to believe them for political reasons.
b) to have a political viewpoint is not bias. If it were, we could dismiss every outlet as biased, because everyone has a political viewpoint.
@rvkennedy Keep in mind that Dare works for Meta when trying to make sense of its tech analysis...
Propaganda rests on the idea that there is no way to determine what is true and that there is no objective reality. That's why we can't give up on fact-checking and learning to use critical thinking to vet the reliability of sources.
@carnage4life I think it is incredibly dangerous to let lies spread without challenge though. Look where we are. A large portion of the population believes the election was stolen, that climate change is a hoax, and that vaccines are poison. Tech platforms (radio, TV, internet) amplify lies, and once you hear a lie, part of your brain accepts it. It's insidious.