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How will a system like this handle unpredictable developments reported by new or few sources? And how will a system like this handle news or reports about even
by soft_dev_person 10y ago
How will a system like this handle unpredictable developments reported by new or few sources?
And how will a system like this handle news or reports about events that challenge our world view?
Not everything takes the form of Trump saying random outrageous stuff that is easily verified/rejected.
Also, you may say that "Fact checked" is just an additional data point to judge whether to trust an information source, but you know as well as I do that lazy people (most people) will start thinking that "Fact checked" means truth and "Not fact checked" means lies. Even more so on Facebook.
I think, in the long run, these systems will be detrimental to peoples' ability to judge any information themselves. This is a problem for democracy.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt's not like we are starting in a place where people do a reasonable job of judging information. I remember sitting in a library years ago as two goofballs met each other for the first time and immediately extended each other more credibility than they gave to the institutions they proceeded to ramble about. It was fascinating to watch.
- soft_dev_person 10y agoThen they are not fixing the right problem.
- icebraining 10y agoThe articles aren't being marked as Fact Checked, they are being only tagged as being Fact Checking articles.
- soft_dev_person 10y agoThat's interesting. Not sure it will be interpreted that way by most people, considering how many are interpreting the announcement itself. Even after reading it again and the one announcing the "fact-check" tag, it was still not obvious what they meant until I read your comments in here. Anyway, the part regarding Facebook still stands, and we are moving in that general direction I believe.
- Angostura 10y agoRead the article, look at the screen shots. Articles are being tagged with things like 'Fact Check', 'Opinion' and 'In depth'
- soft_dev_person 10y agoYes, it was clear when I wrote that... Label itself will still be misinterpreted.