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This is a dumb idea. The whole matter is too subjective to be easily quantifiable. In a free country, no one dares to attempt to hold some kind of claim to wh
by battlebot 10y ago
This is a dumb idea. The whole matter is too subjective to be easily quantifiable. In a free country, no one dares to attempt to hold some kind of claim to what is true and what is not true. Any such behavior is akin to what China, East Germany, and the Soviet Union did--they attempt to manage reality for people. It never worked, it doesn't work today. Only the willful foolish are ever tricked by state propaganda.
It's sad that we live in a nation that is so broken that disinformation is a daily problem for each of us, but it is and it is not going away. Your best bet is to remain skeptical of all information at all times.
Also, there is more at play than just reporting of so-called facts. The NY Times will typically run a story and for no reason at all, there will be a paragraph bashing Trump in some way, right in the middle of an otherwise unrelated article. They just find ways to inject stupid editorial opinions into otherwise "clean" news articles.