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In reply to the discussion: Amazon's Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen [View all]ancianita
(36,448 posts)users who are misled by not being told that their participation is actual data that's sold.
Google once wrote its constitution charter that every single thing a user did was Google's property, but no one read that in their TOS.
I get that they should respect us, because even India filed a lawsuit about how Facebook spread disinfo unwittingly that resulted in a couple of major bloody atrocities. But I doubt they're incentivized enough to care about users.
I don't think that tech is off the hook in their responsibility to not amplify what's untruthful just because people click enough to influence their algorithms.
The idea of mis- and disinfo is so that we'll give up on any truthful public communications systems. But we don't do that around here.
Which is why everyone jumped on this suspect article from what's usually seen as a left leaning newspaper. Folks examined the ethos(author)/logos(information)/pathos(audience capacity) were examined and it was overall found to be bullshit. We've constantly attacked the New York Times for cherry picking misinformative, provocative bullshit, too.
Mainstream media's desire for profit doesn't help the truth and democracy DIE. Hell, no.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA HELPS TRUTH KILLERS KILL DEMOCRACY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
This books explains how they do that:
WaPo's masthead quote is bullshit.
But Us on DU? We don't fucking give up on Truth.