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Could we build a plugin that alters headlines to reflect reality?
by SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
Could we build a plugin that alters headlines to reflect reality?
- artur_makly 9y agothats why i made this : http://TrumpTweets.io http://TrumpTweets.io - is powered by caring humans
- breakingcups 9y agoThat 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 agoFor 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.