Facebook context warnings

I will be the first to admit I have quoted articles as if I’ve read them when all I did was skim the headline. Reading headlines is so much fun and way easier than actually doing your due diligence. However, one could argue a lack of diligence and an abundance of self-confidence has led to an erosion in institutional trust in America, but that merits a totally separate body of writing I’m not equipped to handle in this newsletter.

I saw in the last couple of days that RFK might be running for president in 2024? All I know about RFK is that his wife used to be married to Larry David, the writer for Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If it hasn’t started already, I’m guessing we’re going to enter another wild couple of years for political headlines. I’m guessing the frenzy will be exacerbated by people (like myself) who spend too much time sharing and not enough time reading.

To mitigate this, what if there was a label indicating when someone shares an article without reading it? You could implement this via eye-tracking which is likely employed by apps like Facebook, or you could measure the amount of time spent on the link prior to sharing.

This is a useful feature, but I doubt it would ever get implemented because it would likely result in fewer controversial posts going viral, which is bad for business when the attention is the commodity we’re trying to monetize.

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