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Totalitarianism, plain and simple. How are you even supposed to verify if a news piece is fake in 24h? You can't. '<major politician> engaged in a <criminal ac

Totalitarianism, plain and simple. How are you even supposed to verify if a news piece is fake in 24h? You can't. '<major politician> engaged in a <criminal activity>'. No way to verify. If genuinely fake news, delete - no fine, not delete - big fine. If true, delete - no fine, not delete - risk of fine, which may or may not be returned later, depending on how powerful said politician is... So the end result is that only news from entities explicitly allowed by the government are safe to keep. Here's a funny thing: the only government that's not going to abuse this is the one that's not hiding anything nefarious! So the end result is: all stories that uncover really bad things about the government are going to disappear, and the entity that made/published it is going to be labelled 'fake news' if it wasn't already. Which means the only way for a media entity to survive is to self-censor.

manquer 10y ago
It is not that difficult actually. It requires some human effort that fb and Google are idealogically unwilling to consider. it as simple as requiring accreditation to the national press associations as "real" news orgs have and validating credentials as event venues do for example. Automated solution only approaxg and democratisation of news(I.e bloggers) is an ideological stand not a practical limitations
- synicalx 10y ago
  But how does having 'credentials' mean that they're publishing real news? All that does is give the Government control over who can and can't publish news, and you cannot possibly argue that this is a good thing in any way. In the US election coverage there have been numerous examples of established 'real' news outlets like CNN, and nice touchy-feely 'acceptable' outlets like Huffington Post publishing stories that have either been outright lies or completely misleading.

manquer 10y ago

It is not that difficult actually. It requires some human effort that fb and Google are idealogically unwilling to consider. it as simple as requiring accreditation to the national press associations as "real" news orgs have and validating credentials as event venues do for example. Automated solution only approaxg and democratisation of news(I.e bloggers) is an ideological stand not a practical limitations

synicalx 10y ago
But how does having 'credentials' mean that they're publishing real news? All that does is give the Government control over who can and can't publish news, and you cannot possibly argue that this is a good thing in any way. In the US election coverage there have been numerous examples of established 'real' news outlets like CNN, and nice touchy-feely 'acceptable' outlets like Huffington Post publishing stories that have either been outright lies or completely misleading.