Lies on the Internet
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used mostly as a joke or cartoon shorthand about misinformation online.
What it is
A very short clip from the children's cartoon Arthur riffing on the line about not believing everything you read on the internet.
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What Hacker News said
Cites bjt2n3904 · 2020-02 · on “Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster”
I particularly enjoy Arthur the Aardvark's take on false information on the internet[1]. The author is right. Letting the community decide what is true will be a disaster. Really, truth (or lack there of) is outside Twitter's scope. Twitter exists to allow users to communicate. Not to educate users on critical thinking, or arbitrate truth. Even if they "democratize" truth. 1 - [this video]
Cites TobyTheDog123 · 2022-04 · on “Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources”
At the end of the day, it's your choice how you determine what's true, but I don't believe anyone has the right to tell you how to do that -- that the screening should happen between you and the content, not between the submitter and the platform -- kind of like XSS prevention (you must assume anything can get into the database, but all that matters is how it's executed by the end user). I'll give my personal opinion, which you may want to treat as one of many possible viewpoints: [this video] [LINK] The internet has run on the concept of trust and reputation for a while now, but IMO, if you want anything close to the full story, you have to put in the work yourself: Compile your sources, evaluat