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> You're focusing on the content. That's the only thing you can focus on. Why should someone be punished and labeled as fake if they're on a wordpress.com subd

> You're focusing on the content. That's the only thing you can focus on. Why should someone be punished and labeled as fake if they're on a wordpress.com subdomain? Domain is just out, even spammy or weird looking domains may end up being popular / culturally fit. You would be preventing good journalistic folks from having any type of reach if you want to test against domains names, something that arguable may go away as far as the user is concerned in the next decade. I'm unconvinced there is anything but content that you can really go off of. Keywords are not even used in search results, why would they determine news legitimacy? Even references are not always useful.

robrenaud 10y ago
> Why should someone be punished and labeled as fake if they're on a wordpress.com subdomain? Because metadata can be super useful in making inferences about page quality. Pagerank exploited this idea a ton. If wordpress subdomains are more likely fake in a training corpus, then that piece of evidence should be counted.
abiox 10y ago
> Why should someone be punished and labeled as fake if they're on a wordpress.com subdomain i don't know about "labeled as fake", exactly, but it's possible that quickly and easily acquired urls (such as a wordpress subdomain) may display a different amount of reliability (per whatever heuristic) in comparison with various established urls.