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I don't think they will, they'll turn off the news completely and follow "news" about other stuff instead. Sports, video games, hobbies, they'll ignore current

I don't think they will, they'll turn off the news completely and follow "news" about other stuff instead. Sports, video games, hobbies, they'll ignore current events and politics or anything else they might find anxiety inducing. That's what I do anyway, I'm much happier for it.

sqeaky 9y ago
I suppose it is possible that a critical mass of people will give up. That seems unlikely to me, too many care for better or worse. The people that care will either remain poorly informed for gradually get more informed and by our electing of Trump it seems quite likely misinformed with reign for some time. (I am not trying to politicize this, but trump got huge help from crazy news sources like breitbart)
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SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
Could we build a plugin that alters headlines to reflect reality?
- artur_makly 9y ago
  thats why i made this : http://TrumpTweets.io http://TrumpTweets.io - is powered by caring humans
- breakingcups 9y ago
  That would be fantastic. I'd love a plugin like that. There is a problem in curation / moderation though. Who do you trust with correcting headlines? The public, with voting? Easily manipulated still. Another problem this doesn't correct is the selection of what events to report on. To use an example from the article, terrorism would still dominate your news feed.
  - SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
    For the terrorism example you could have a nifty bot that keeps track of worldwide terror stats and local terror stats and report something like: odds of dying in terror attack rise from .00005% to .00006% (obv made up number) after {city} attacks. Would have to figure out how to do this while still respecting those who were affected though. Or for clickbait science headlines immediately report the statistical significance of the cited paper/credibility of journal based on the number of citations that journal recieves from other scientists. Some types of articles would be tougher than others for sure but that doesn't mean we couldn't grab at the low hanging fruit.

sqeaky 9y ago

I suppose it is possible that a critical mass of people will give up. That seems unlikely to me, too many care for better or worse. The people that care will either remain poorly informed for gradually get more informed and by our electing of Trump it seems quite likely misinformed with reign for some time. (I am not trying to politicize this, but trump got huge help from crazy news sources like breitbart)

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SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago

Could we build a plugin that alters headlines to reflect reality?

artur_makly 9y ago
thats why i made this : http://TrumpTweets.io http://TrumpTweets.io - is powered by caring humans
breakingcups 9y ago
That would be fantastic. I'd love a plugin like that. There is a problem in curation / moderation though. Who do you trust with correcting headlines? The public, with voting? Easily manipulated still. Another problem this doesn't correct is the selection of what events to report on. To use an example from the article, terrorism would still dominate your news feed.
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
  For the terrorism example you could have a nifty bot that keeps track of worldwide terror stats and local terror stats and report something like: odds of dying in terror attack rise from .00005% to .00006% (obv made up number) after {city} attacks. Would have to figure out how to do this while still respecting those who were affected though. Or for clickbait science headlines immediately report the statistical significance of the cited paper/credibility of journal based on the number of citations that journal recieves from other scientists. Some types of articles would be tougher than others for sure but that doesn't mean we couldn't grab at the low hanging fruit.