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What value does Rotten Tomatoes provide? Is review aggregation really the model for truth we want to use? "A lot of people find this reliable/unreliable" tells
by overthemoon 8y ago
What value does Rotten Tomatoes provide? Is review aggregation really the model for truth we want to use? "A lot of people find this reliable/unreliable" tells you exactly that and nothing more. This is an attempt to cram the huge, complex enterprise of discourse into some kind of boolean true/false reliable/unreliable binary it cannot fit neatly into. Disinformation and tribalism are social problems that aren't waved away with technological solutions.
At the end of the day, I'm not interested in startups as truth gatekeepers. It's empty when it comes to movies--it's downright disingenuous when it comes to the news. It provides the veneer of objectivity by being a technological solution, but the enterprise's foundation is still ideological. I trust them as little as any other outlet that can't honestly assess and describe their own viewpoint.
At best, you're adding another layer that will itself become ideologically polarized. If this or similar platforms succeed, we'll see a proliferation of them by people who feel like it is too <ideology> or not enough <ideology>.