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To re-iterate what ManlyBread wrote above, the BS Detector tool uses a fixed list [1] of domains that are deemed to convey 'fake news'; there is no neural netwo
by dexen 10y ago
To re-iterate what ManlyBread wrote above, the BS Detector tool uses a fixed list [1] of domains that are deemed to convey 'fake news'; there is no neural network / algorithm / heuristics being used in the tool. Just a blacklist with several categories, curated by humans.
For example:
{"url": "wikileaks.org", "type": "rumors"},
[1] https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome/data/data.json https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome...