TLDR: It reduces the virality of misinformation by ~8% and increases article deletion.

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[–] 29 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I give less shits every day about the "freedom" of allowing harm to others.

And Zuck's business RUNS on engagement. If fact check leads to less engagement as the article says, they are disincentivized of any reason to go forward with it. The danger of abusing "fact check" is very real. We pass a fact check law, and suddenly the US gives a billion to an Elon Musk startup "Fax Chex XxX" or whatever and it just labels stuff as woke and deletes anyone who says Trump is on the Epstein list.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Are shits countable? Does it depend on if they're metaphorical or physical? 🤔

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    Fewer engagement is grammatically incorrect. Fewer shits is colloquially incorrect. If they want to be a pedant, they should at least know what the fuck they are talking about. If I were to try to improve it, I would change "less shits" to "less of a shit" but it's all slang anyway. Anyone suggesting such a correction is a wanker.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Fewer shits is colloquially incorrect.

    Not in my area. Fewer shits is correct.

    If you want to use less, say "less of a shit".

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes I think "less of a shit" is the right way (as I mentioned in the comment above).

    Where do you live? UK?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Used in a sentence:

    Fewer and fewer people cared for Prescriptivism, as they are aware that it's an outdated model of linguistics and that it's seen as a waste of everyone's time.

    Language is living and breathing, not frozen in amber

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