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> And _apparently_ for some people any action taken to correct yellow journalism is decried as censorship. No, but automatic removal of fake news is censorship
by soft_dev_person 10y ago
> And _apparently_ for some people any action taken to correct yellow journalism is decried as censorship.
No, but automatic removal of fake news is censorship, since all of us in here should know that determining truth by algorithms is really an unsolvable problem in _very many important cases_.
It could/would probably be reduced to a source credibility score, but credibility is subjective.
- justinlaster 10y agoUsing facebook as an example, Facebook had editors and then got slammed with the completely useless "bias" label because they sought stories from actual, reasonably credible sources. Their algorithm was not responsible for removing content, their editors were. Until they got rid of those editors because of "bias" and "censorship." Then fake stories/yellow journalism flourished on Facebook's trending news feed for quite some time during the election.
- soft_dev_person 10y agoTrue, but by using "external fact checkers" they are more or less reverting to the old system. Similar, anyway.