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Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources [pdf]

• 6d6b73 11y ago
  Am I reading this wrong, or could this potentially be used to censorship information on the web?
  • Kalium 11y ago
    What this is about is trying to extract apparent facts from a network of documents and using those facts to evaluate the reliability of the documents. So I guess it depends on what you mean by "to censorship". Do you mean "not generally send people to a document reasonably expected to be untrustworthy"?
    • 6d6b73 11y ago
      While this could be used by a search engine to promote "reliable" data, there is potential that it could be used to hide some information that are generally considered reliable but are in reality false. I.e recent discussion about vaccination - while most scientific literature agrees that it's a good idea, some of it disagrees with that.. This algorithm could be used (on purpose or not) to hide that less popular information from the public.
      • Kalium 11y ago
        Yes, it's possible for any attempt to evaluate the reliability or trustworthiness of a source to arrive at incorrect conclusions. This is possible for both human and machine processes. At the same time, it's simply unreasonable to expect any given person using a search engine to consume and reliably evaluate all available information on a topic. The cost in time is too high, and the person will often lack the required expertise. With these in mind, do you have an alternative proposal?