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A video is data that exists with forensic context. What we need are institutions that are trusted to verify this data, like journalism. Except it is being all
by chillwaves 6y ago
A video is data that exists with forensic context.
What we need are institutions that are trusted to verify this data, like journalism. Except it is being allowed to be perverted for profit or ideology.
- chrisseaton 6y agoWhat does a journalist know about verifying video data? And isn't a journalist going to bring their own side of the story to it? Hardly independent.
- chillwaves 6y agoI'm sure the New York Times, with its resources, is able to hire some help. It's honestly incomprehensible to me that anyone would think otherwise. A journalist that has a reputation for truth would hopefully bring that integrity to the process. Every party will have some kind of perspective or bias, we should pick the ones who are incentivized towards truth vs lying for profit/sensation.
- filoleg 6y ago>What does a journalist know about verifying video data? I don't think the parent comment was using journalists as a specific group of people who should be the ones in charge of verifying video data. I took it more as "we need a dedicated group of people for verifying video data, similarly to how we had journalists verifying all other sorts of data for their articles since the dawn of journalism". Goes without saying, but, also, the parent comment was clearly alluding to the "verification by journalists" in a traditional sense of proper investigative journalism, not "journalism" that is based on pulling random tweets without context from random no-names.