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Everyone: "We've got a problem with fake news and journalistic integrity on the internet." Google engineers: "Oh, I can make an API for that!"

• worldsayshi 9y ago
  Well, this is a problem caused by technology to begin with. I don't get the negativity directed to the intention of this. Sure you can criticise the particular execution.
  • Spivak 9y ago
    It's a problem that has always existed. We are only now more aware of it because there are fewer barriers to communication. Technology is an easy scapegoat for what are very human problems.
    • jkeat 9y ago
      It's a problem that can't be stamped out, yes, but we should try to mitigate it, no?
  • swanson 9y ago
    Partisan fact checking -- which this effort intends to standardize and elevate -- is part of the problem, not the solution.
    • zimpenfish 9y ago
      Can you explain this?