Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires

Asymmetrical warfare. Truth can never win. Fact checking is akin to boiling the ocean.<p>Just require attribution and real names.<p>Then ban algorithmic newsfeeds, targeted advertising, and bots.<p>Sure, let the Freedom Speeches™ trolls keep their conspiracy theories and hoaxes. Anything approaching omission will trigger the cancel culture keyboard commandos. And who needs that heart ache?<p>But ffs stop promoting it. And if it&#x27;s not signed with a real name, don&#x27;t pass it off as any thing more than it is.<p>PS- I&#x27;m open towards banning likes and retweets. I haven&#x27;t dug into the data, but I&#x27;m reasonably sure they&#x27;re part of the dopamine addiction too. And if these obvious, common sense, proven remedies are not enough, start adding other frictions to the feedback loops.

It&#x27;s worth noting that the &quot;misinformation&quot; cited by Facebook regards the attribution of the fires to particular groups, and that they are not disputing that some of the fires may have been intentional. They are not claiming that all of the fires are natural, or that people have not been arrested for arson, just that those arrested are not shown to be associated with the particular groups that are being accused. This page has details on six individuals who have in fact been arrested for setting recent West Coast fires: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thatoregonlife.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;signs-in-oregon-fire-zones-show-looters-and-arsonists-will-not-be-tolerated&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thatoregonlife.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;signs-in-oregon-fire-zone...</a>.

We are about 10 miles from the fire and about 5 miles from people who have been evacuated.<p>Frustratingly, one of the best sources of information about the fires has been community meetings and content posted on Facebook by the agencies involved. Often those same community meetings and PSAs about the fire have been bracketed by non-stop streams of people reposting this same bullshit about the fires.<p>In general, I think posting siloed content is really bad policy by government agencies, but in this case it&#x27;s particularly bad. I don&#x27;t see this as a failure of the fire agencies—it&#x27;s not their job to be a platform for delivering content. The problem is our government lacks effective channels for delivering this content outside of these silos.

Why is Facebook&#x27;s policy communications manager tweeting?

&gt;We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups.<p>I don&#x27;t get how Facebook can say with certainty this is misinformation? It&#x27;s information that hasn&#x27;t been verified. There is an important difference.

Facebook removes lots of truthful stuff, so that says nothing about the validity of it. It does tell us that Facebook employees dislike the information.

Don&#x27;t remove posts.<p>Mark them as lies and don&#x27;t let the writer modify or delete them.<p>Once people see they have been upvoting lies, some might reconsider next time.

If anybody really wanted to know &quot;who started the fires,&quot; that&#x27;s easy: It was you, driving that car of yours, running that air conditioner, heater, stove, fridge, washer&#x2F;dryer, buying those products, living your life. Not a mystery. But nobody wants to know that. Consider each downvote a confirmation of that last sentence.

Political extremists did not start the fires. But decades of the political status quo in both dominant parties led to mismanagement that led to the current situation. Are any of the &quot;corrections&quot; correcting that omission?

It sounds like Facebook fell for misinformation, or they are willingly involved in a political coverup.<p>Here we have a distraught witness: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitchute.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;tNgWGZBxPtGx&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitchute.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;tNgWGZBxPtGx&#x2F;</a>