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It won't stop the army of fact-checkers debunking articles for having no reliable sources, and denouncing them on social media. Social being both the main distr
by sr2 9y ago
It won't stop the army of fact-checkers debunking articles for having no reliable sources, and denouncing them on social media. Social being both the main distribution for fake news, and also the platform where articles are routinely ridiculed and mocked. Something like Wales' WikiTribune[1] are a response to fake news and propagandists, and are a welcome step to try and address the issue. Facebook are also up in arms about this and are trying to spot fake news either algorithmically or using a paid taskforce of highly trained fact checkers (the mechanical turk approach). Reddit also warns users of posts which are regarded as fake news and warns users to take them with a pinch of salt.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitribune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitribune
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoThe problem is targeting and segmentation. If a hundred thousand people see evidence for X and a hundred thousand people see a debunking that always convinces you of not-X, the debunking doesn't matter unless it's the same hundred thousand people. If the segment is the roughly 100M voters in America, you'll reach one in a thousand unless you've got the same targeting/segmentation filters.
- exolymph 9y agoFact-checks don't spread as widely as the original sources.