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We have a website in Norway that does fact checking of news and statements made by politicians etc in the media: https://www.faktisk.no/om-oss/ https://www.fakt

by alfla 9y ago

We have a website in Norway that does fact checking of news and statements made by politicians etc in the media: https://www.faktisk.no/om-oss/ https://www.faktisk.no/om-oss/ (only in Norwegian) I feel that they have a really meaningful and important role in the political debate today. See also: https://www.poynter.org/channels/fact-checking https://www.poynter.org/channels/fact-checking

SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
We have Politifact in USA that serves similar purpose: http://www.politifact.com/ http://www.politifact.com/ It has come under its own criticisms, but the effort and philosophy is pretty laudable.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  Fake news. That's the big problem: it's that easy to delegitimize something in the eyes of enough people that a competing narrative, regardless of its factual value, can be put in competition with it. One approach I'd like to see for this is the use of ethereum-style smart contracts to validate documents (and that it should be as obvious and reliable as a creative commons icon) and collections of source material and the semantic graph that connects them to be public, so that it's much harder for people to dismiss it by attacking the summary node that merely describes the relationship between them (the 'news story'). Textual narratives are stories about relationships and chronologies, but stories can be invalidated by attacking the teller. What we need are public shareable metadata and a protocol for linking disparate pieces of metadata together.
  - goialoq 9y ago
    How is ethereum relevant here? All that's needed is a hyperlink and a hash code for each claim/source mentioned in an article.
    - anigbrowl 9y ago
      Regular people don't understand hash codes, a popular cryptocurrency (which Ethereum might be in future istm) would serve that purpose without people needing to be nerds to recognize it. People don't want to spend time knowing how all that shit works, the same way they just want to be able to recognize authentic cash notes in a physical wallet without having to know anything about specie currency or financial economics.
  - irhd 9y ago
    > One approach I'd like to see for this is the use of ethereum-style smart contracts to validate documents You need to find a new hammer.
    - anigbrowl 9y ago
      That's just the first thing I thought of (I'm not invested in it in any way and down't have any ethercoin). I just mean some sort of publicly-acceptable authentication mechanism that's simple and federated.

by alfla 9y ago

SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago

We have Politifact in USA that serves similar purpose: http://www.politifact.com/ http://www.politifact.com/ It has come under its own criticisms, but the effort and philosophy is pretty laudable.

anigbrowl 9y ago
Fake news. That's the big problem: it's that easy to delegitimize something in the eyes of enough people that a competing narrative, regardless of its factual value, can be put in competition with it. One approach I'd like to see for this is the use of ethereum-style smart contracts to validate documents (and that it should be as obvious and reliable as a creative commons icon) and collections of source material and the semantic graph that connects them to be public, so that it's much harder for people to dismiss it by attacking the summary node that merely describes the relationship between them (the 'news story'). Textual narratives are stories about relationships and chronologies, but stories can be invalidated by attacking the teller. What we need are public shareable metadata and a protocol for linking disparate pieces of metadata together.
- goialoq 9y ago
  How is ethereum relevant here? All that's needed is a hyperlink and a hash code for each claim/source mentioned in an article.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    Regular people don't understand hash codes, a popular cryptocurrency (which Ethereum might be in future istm) would serve that purpose without people needing to be nerds to recognize it. People don't want to spend time knowing how all that shit works, the same way they just want to be able to recognize authentic cash notes in a physical wallet without having to know anything about specie currency or financial economics.
- irhd 9y ago
  > One approach I'd like to see for this is the use of ethereum-style smart contracts to validate documents You need to find a new hammer.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    That's just the first thing I thought of (I'm not invested in it in any way and down't have any ethercoin). I just mean some sort of publicly-acceptable authentication mechanism that's simple and federated.