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It feels like the time is right for a snopes.com for daily news, but it would need trustworthy gatekeepers and a big budget. I think wikitribune.com is doing s
by sandymcmurray 8y ago
It feels like the time is right for a snopes.com for daily news, but it would need trustworthy gatekeepers and a big budget.
I think wikitribune.com is doing something interesting: providing permanence to news stories. Most media cover "breaking news" as quickly as possible, with whatever facts are available, but have no time or space for follow-up or analysis. (Hey, remember that big story from last year (whatever it was)? What happened to those people?)
- tracker1 8y agoNot sure that I agree.. I think a news aggregator that works with snopes could be great though. In the end, I don't think that a single news entity will cover things as well as multiple news sites. Some are better with political coverage, others better for given localities, others still outside given localities, etc. In the end, no news source is perfect and those that are better still have a LOT of bias.
- CM30 8y agoThe issue is likely speed; it takes much longer to debunk a fake or incorrect story than to publish the story to begin with. And in a world where social media is seen as a primary news source (unfortunately), a story is basically seen as 'settled' approximately X hours after being published, if that. You would need an absolute ton of resources, and even that probably wouldn't be enough to fact check the entire online media in anything close to real time.