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Assuming it is actually possible to identify "disinformation", why not down-rank all disinformation?
by Grustaf 5y ago
Assuming it is actually possible to identify "disinformation", why not down-rank all disinformation?
- sofixa 5y agoBecause it isn't easily possible to identify all disinformation. Some of it is obvious - e.g. government-controlled Russian media, some of it much less so.
- Grustaf 5y agoDoes that apply to all state media, like the BBC, or only Russian?
- WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
- ailef 5y agoAs another commenter said it is not possible to reliably identify disinformation. They are not inspecting the content and applying some kind of advanced NLP to classify it, they are just tagging as disinformation anything coming from Russia-based sources.
- Grustaf 5y agoYes, that's my point. Either it's possible to detect, then there's no reason to target specifically Russian disinformation. Or it's not, and then it's just a matter of blocking all Russian information, not disinformation.