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> A plugin that will identify text that resembles known PR and propaganda and links to the original source. Certainly such a tool might be useful to someone an
by crispyambulance 5y ago
> A plugin that will identify text that resembles known PR and propaganda and links to the original source.
Certainly such a tool might be useful to someone analyzing disinformation campaigns, but it only goes so far.
If the intent with such plugins and other forms of human/AI moderation is merely identify the source of what looks like disinformation, you're going to disappointed to hear that those who are influenced by disinformation don't care what "the source" is. It's why meatheads on Fox News can blabber non-stop garbage and get the highest news media ratings in history.
Dealing with this problem with "plugins", at best, is entering an infinite game of wack-a-mole. It's fundamentally not a technological problem.
This kind of stuff has always existed, and yes, now it's hopped-up on internet speed and naive countermeasures now need AI to keep up. But it's still qualitatively the same thing as it was in the 1930's. It requires a long game to battle it involving leadership, an educated populace and a government that isn't grossly polarized and dysfunctional.
Sadly, I don't think we're up to the challenge at least in the USA.
- fartcannon 5y agoAgreed about the whack-a-mole. Would be hard. Only a few people have the ability to lead projects that require so much mole whacking. I'm thinking of gorhill and ublock origin, for example.
- tekknik 5y ago> It's why meatheads on Fox News can blabber non-stop garbage and get the highest news media ratings in history. Interesting how you had to throw a right wing site in there with your underhanded attack. So you think the left is immune to this? Can you actually get through a CNN article without wanting to vomit? With that one statement you lost me entirely.
- crispyambulance 5y agoTo be honest, I do feel that CNN and MSNBC have fallen off a cliff as far as quality is concerned in the last 10+ years. All cable news is pretty much a wasteland. But there's a special place in hell reserved for Fox News. As bad as CNN can get with its cloying reductive stories, they at least try. Fox News is end-to-end garbage. Sorry.