This is where the crowdsourced-fact checking argument falls apart for me. Crowd-based investment advice is backstopped by financial reality. Crowd-based fact checking doesn’t have those same safeguards. And when the CEO posts his own polls, what do we do then?

Captain douchebag asks if the United States should militarily invade and overthrow the democratically elected government of our closest ally, and a majority of X respondents say "yes." If you're still on X, this is on you. This is what you're supporting.

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