OMFG: NewsGuard
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 02:29
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Microsoft's effort to protect you from unapproved news. They want it installed everywhere (of course). The news will be "vetted" by "independent" journalists like ex-CIA/NSA officials Chris Hayden and ex-UnderScy "Chief Propagandist" State Richard Stengel. Because, of course, they're "unbiased". JFC. Welcome to 1984.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-journalistic-fix-for-
fake-news-a-new-venture-seeks-to-take-on-the-epidemic/2018/03/02/065438ca-1daf-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html
https://www.newsguardtech.com/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Microsoft's effort to protect you from unapproved news. They want it installed everywhere (of course). The news will be "vetted" by "independent" journalists like ex-CIA/NSA officials Chris Hayden and ex-UnderScy "Chief Propagandist" State Richard Stengel. Because, of course, they're "unbiased". JFC. Welcome to 1984.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-journalistic-fix-for-
fake-news-a-new-venture-seeks-to-take-on-the-epidemic/2018/03/02/065438ca-1daf-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html
https://www.newsguardtech.com/
Wow - you went back almost a year to get something to be snippy about.
That's a tough nut to crack - accurate reporting rating for Truth - it definitely *could* be better than algorithms though. Facebook used those until it was obvious they were flawed and easy to game.
“Our goal isn’t necessarily to stop [fake news] but to arm people with some basic information when they’re about to read or share stuff,” Brill said. “We’re not trying to block anything.”
Ideally, he said, a user encountering, say, the website Whatisfracking.com in a Google search would quickly learn that the site is funded by a vested interest, the American Petroleum Institute. It would also instantly flag as “fake news” a site such as the Denver Guardian, which posted a bogus story about Hillary Clinton that was viewed by about 1.6 million people during the late stages of the 2016 presidential campaign."
Sounds great, but people are involved so, yanno... I honestly don't see it working.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Microsoft's effort to protect you from unapproved news. They want it installed everywhere (of course). The news will be "vetted" by "independent" journalists like ex-CIA/NSA officials Chris Hayden and ex-UnderScy "Chief Propagandist" State Richard Stengel. Because, of course, they're "unbiased". JFC. Welcome to 1984.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-journalistic-fix-for-
fake-news-a-new-venture-seeks-to-take-on-the-epidemic/2018/03/02/065438ca-1daf-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html
https://www.newsguardtech.com/]
Wow - you went back almost a year to get something to be snippy about.
That's a tough nut to crack - accurate reporting rating for Truth - it definitely *could* be better than algorithms though. Facebook used those until it was obvious they were flawed and easy to game.
“Our goal isn’t necessarily to stop [fake news] but to arm people with some basic information when they’re about to read or share stuff,” Brill said. “We’re not trying to block anything.”
Ideally, he said, a user encountering, say, the website Whatisfracking.com in a Google search would quickly learn that the site is funded by a vested interest, the American Petroleum Institute. It would also instantly flag as “fake news” a site such as the Denver Guardian, which posted a bogus story about Hillary Clinton that was viewed by about 1.6 million people during the late stages of the 2016 presidential campaign."
Sounds great, but people are involved so, yanno... I honestly don't see it working.
So it's similar to what we do here G. Like pointing out trolls like sigs fake news and lies.
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We have freedom of the press here. That's not something you have in Russia, Siggy.
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