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ronpaulinstitute.org is listed as fake news? How did they determine what was fake or not?
by trendia 10y ago
ronpaulinstitute.org is listed as fake news? How did they determine what was fake or not?
- rusew 10y agoThat list is not just fake news but also ones with extreme bias. Source: the domain classifications in the project readme.
- ominous 10y agoFollowing the link, here's the source: https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome/data/data.json https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome... As per the author of the dataset on kaggle: contains text and metadata scraped from 244 websites tagged as "bullshit" here by the BS Detector Chrome Extension by Daniel Sieradski. Warning: I did not modify the list of news sources from the BS Detector so as not to introduce my (useless) layer of bias
- inimino 10y agoJust a list of domains compiled by a guy. If you want to know more about the level of thinking behind the list of domains, this[1] page linked from the BS detector readme gives the general idea. I would say it's the product of a very earnest idealist who thinks he has solved the problem because he hasn't spent enough time thinking about the problem to understand the ways in which it is non-trivial. https://www.inverse.com/article/23781-bs-detector-facebook-fake-news-daniel-sieradski https://www.inverse.com/article/23781-bs-detector-facebook-f...