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I have to wonder if today's instant and constant news cycle will end up being a brief anomaly, once the technology to literally create "fake news" is a bit more

• danso 9y ago
  Sure, why not? The improvement in tools to efficiently produce and disseminate video are enjoyed by honest journalists too. Many of these official events have more than one photographer/videographer [0]. If only 1 outlet can produce a highly-suspicious video of a public event recorded/observed by dozens of other outlets, then distrust that single outlet. We already have had to do this in a medium that is efficiently easy to fabricate: text. Society as a whole will just have to realize that video is as alterable as text. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/insider/a-photo-of-james-comey-takes-the-internet-by-storm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/insider/a-photo-of-james-...
  • sahil-kang 9y ago
    This is a fantastic analogy. Since you've pointed out how alterable text mediums are, I'm now thinking of services which provide a ranking of accuracy for text publications. Off the top of my head, I can think of two metrics: (1) The number of sources a publication cites, like a bibliography. (2) The number of publications which refer back to a publication, like PageRank.
• IncRnd 9y ago
  All it will take is people to start focusing on creating "fake news" for it to start to appear. From 1997, 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ix5IYz0cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ix5IYz0cc
• 1_2__4 9y ago
  Ask yourself which is more lucrative and you’ll have your(depressing) answer.