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100% agreed.

>(If it decreases between 1B and 10B views on such content, and if we assume one person falling for it each 100,000 views, it will prevent 10,000 to 100,000 "falls") 14/

What does this sentence even mean? It's very hard to parse to the point of being incoherent.

The fact that people have gone from writing long-form essays to "twitter threads" to argue something is tragic.



That given the number of views of this content and how likely a user will fall for it, there are a significant number of people who will not be tricked into believing something not true due to this algorithm change.




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