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Whoever read XKCD #1085[1] and decided it needed to be a real thing is my hero.

Now the problem is how much it will be politicized and cherry-picked

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1085/



It already has. Emerald boy has deleted context applied to his own tweets, and some of the context being applied to Dem posts is right-wing bullshit.


I have little doubt that Musk will have this feature used capriciously, but I also think crowd sourcing fact checking/context giving is bound to have weird edgecases caused by ideological cranks.


Can you reference specific examples of the latter?




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