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Seems like it would be easy to follow the identified snopes links and parse the true or false they give in order to put a verified or debunked link with every s

by eloff 13y ago

Seems like it would be easy to follow the identified snopes links and parse the true or false they give in order to put a verified or debunked link with every share (linking to snopes). Now that would be useful. All this data mining is interesting, but just tells us what we already know (people share lot's of rumors that are frequently false.) Why not do something about it?

pessimizer 13y ago
>Why not do something about it? Because they may not care, and they may not have recorded this information for the purpose of social engineering? There's value in studying the dynamics of processes without any intention to manipulate them.