• yip-bonk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Totally agree that huge social media systems need to be understood as disproportionately affecting misinformation. I don’t know anything about Telegram, though.

    Are the pushback people fReEzE PeAChErs or something? Is Telegram just lovely? Dunno.

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      1 year ago

      I’m part of a few Telegram channels full of highly progressive IRL friends and colleagues. I also know Telegram is full of channels dedicated to crypto shilling, liveleak-esque video and imagery, piracy chats, privacy chats, QAnon forums, etc etc. I used it to communicate with family when I was out of the country and didn’t want to pay for roaming charges.

      Telegram itself is just a piece of software. Telegram’s community is wide and varied. Does it need moderation? Yeah probably. Who should be doing the moderating, not just of individual channels but of all the channels? Eh, I don’t have a good answer to that.

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        Telegram itself is just a piece of software. Telegram’s community is wide and varied. Does it need moderation? Yeah probably. Who should be doing the moderating, not just of individual channels but of all the channels? Eh, I don’t have a good answer to that.

        As long as you agree it should be happening, I appreciate that. I think Telegram should probably worry about it, and keep looking for solutions, but also that people should report the problematic groups and channels they come across, and be aware of the issue just to put a little more PR pressure on them to come up with a solution.