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Is there no robust way to hold publications accountable for carelessly peddling bullshit? I fear it will be incredibly difficult to improve the existing incent
by dwaltrip 9y ago
Is there no robust way to hold publications accountable for carelessly peddling bullshit?
I fear it will be incredibly difficult to improve the existing incentives.
- dom96 9y agoThis is a good question and I have given some thought on this. One quick idea would be to somehow shame publications for incorrect coverage, but doing so seems like an uphill battle. It will always be significantly easier to peddle bullshit than it is to disprove that bullshit.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAlso, those publications almost by definition can outpublish you.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoSome gatekeeper like google would be needed to raise exposure by verifyability. The problem for a algorithm is to quanitfy truthfullness- it needs some feedback by the audience for that- and it needs to learn whos feedback is qualified. Doubt that even google could build such a curating search engine.
- chris_wot 9y agoThe UK has a press council.
- pmyteh 9y agoThe UK has had a succession of self-regulatory bodies which have conspicuously failed to prevent the worst criminal impulses of Fleet Street, let alone make an impact on merely poor reporting. It's also, interestingly, had some of the most outrageously claimant-friendly libel laws in the world, which hasn't made much of a difference either (though defaming somebody rich and bloody-minded can get pretty expensive).