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What if bots and nations state actors can flood the platform with so much incorrect speech that correct speech cannot be heard?


Then who decides what is incorrect and correct speech? In the highly charged partisan climate, we saw how that turned out in the last two elections.


If we knew which speech was correct from its content alone, we wouldn't need freedom of speech.

However, naravara started the comment with:

> What if bots and nations state actors can flood the platform…

Which is much easier to deal with.


There's a difference between opinions and facts.


In theory, not so much in practice.


How would that work?

Most platforms I think let you follow specific accounts, and noise from other accounts shouldn't matter (unless it's enough to DDOS the system).




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