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How much resources are spent fact checking because bots like Mila Joy are lying? (slrpnk.net)

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[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 34 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I have noticed this as well. Back during the early facebook years, a "news" outlet would just generate content by posting stories like "Greenville ranked as the city with highest crime rate" every week or so.

Everybody on my facebook feed would go crazy saying things like "I always knew that town was dangerous, but to hear it outranks New York? TERRIFYING!"

Only issue is that this outlet would have 50 different URLs for the article, all giving a city in a different state (always an immigrant heavy suburb) and those articles would be appear around facebook and nobody would know the wiser.

It costs almost nothing for them to rewrite the world and your perspective about it. The granularity they are now capable of should give us pause.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

Interesting. This one didn't include a link to an article, just fear mongering.

The person that posted it deleted it after my comment, I think. I'll check.