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Some challenges: - it's hard to draw a line between true and false in the presence of subjective information. - it's hard to do a classification without false
by partycoder 10y ago
Some challenges:
- it's hard to draw a line between true and false in the presence of subjective information.
- it's hard to do a classification without false positives and false negatives.
- it's hard to defend yourself from accusations of bias and manipulation in the presence of false positives/false negatives.
- it's hard to scale a process involving human reviewers.
So, in short, what they did is to let the community regulate their own content. If people visit some stupid article about curing cancer by eating cheetos while twerking then that is what is going to trend. If people want to read about Brawndo, the thirst mutilator and how awesome it is on plants let them read it.
- partycoder 10y agoThen, just like television is not responsible for TV addicts, Facebook may not be responsible for the susceptibility of people to believe and share fake news.
- DefaultUserHN 10y agoWhy should Facebook be responsible? Do we really need to "protect" people by preventing them from reading tabloid magazines?
- partycoder 10y agoI think the problem to address should be improving education. If you are well educated it would take a much more elaborate effort to trick you. It's still possible, e.g: race baiting and conspiracy theories have become a thing lately.