It's a good principle but it's been empirically proven that it doesn't work out that way in reality. Misinformation does not get effectively countered by spreading true information after the misinformation has spread. Even spreading it alongside (like with community notes) gives mixed results.

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howunfortunate a day ago | parent [-]

Certain misinformation "works", but censorship also "works", so unless you can detect false information with 0.0% bias, that puts the platform's finger on the scale.

I'd much rather deal with information assymetries from individuals within the community than information assymetries from whoever happens to have control over the platforms, and is willing to use censorship.

I'd also like to add that a lot of these misinformation studies ironically wound up using information now accepted to be true or likely (such as that COVID most likely originated from a Chinese lab) as their "misinformation" - so in a way I'm glad that countering with "true" information didn't unilaterally work.

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estearum a day ago | parent [-]

> I'd much rather deal with information assymetries from individuals within the community

Ah this must be why you're confused. You think the hazard that platforms are trying to manage is from "individuals within the community" and not, for example, foreign intelligence services.

> information now accepted to be true or likely (such as that COVID most likely originated from a Chinese lab)

Lmao uh oh. The mark of the terminally-online has been revealed! Hilarious how many Twitterites have come to simply believe that COVID originated from a lab over the last year or two despite zero new evidence emerging in favor of that theory, and actually tons of evidence against it emerging since then. It's almost like if read false information enough times, you'll just presume it to be true... Curious ain't it?

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howunfortunate a day ago | parent [-]

Ironically, the "new evidence" that emerged was in fact "old evidence" that was suppressed.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/new-doc-drop-slack-m...

https://oversight.house.gov/release/classified-state-departm...

	▲	estearum a day ago \| parent [-]
		Try re-reading the above comment. You are (mistakenly) substantiating it though: there has not been new evidence in favor of the lab leak in several years! You're right! Meanwhile, evidence in favor of a natural origin has continued to pile up.