CaudallyReinsure396 t1_jb00upf wrote on March 5, 2023 at 11:24 AM

Reply to comment by fractiousrhubarb in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga

The concept of reality is different for everyone because everyone has different kind of ideologies that they believe in.

And what you may think is true or not depends on which side you are on.

fractiousrhubarb t1_jb03p6p wrote on March 5, 2023 at 12:02 PM

People have different world models, but the difference between a delusion and reality is that reality is still there when you stop believing in it.

In this case you could repeat the same experiment (ie, looking at the same set of posts) and fact check them against reality (an example of which could be political voting records) to find out if they contained misinformation, categorize them on whether which party they supported and tabulate the results.

It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a reasonable and justifiable description of reality.