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Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lie dept.

holy_calamity writes "While introducing the new World Wide Web Foundation Tim Berners-Lee made also asked for a system of ratings to help people distinguish truth and untruth online. 'On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly,' he said, saying that 'there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.'"

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  1. Just what we need... by cabjf · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a truthiness rating!

    1. Re:Just what we need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd mod you +1 truthy (but I could be making this up).

    2. Re:Just what we need... by QZTR · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Which, if I am correct..."

      You're aren't correct.

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  2. This article is not true. by mraiser · · Score: 5, Funny

    There. Now you know.

  3. Slashdot getting a truth rating? by MistaE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick! Someone hide kdawson!

  4. Re:Truth rate this post by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, let's truth rate (True or False answers only) the following sentence in this post:

    "This sentence is false."

    I'd have to give it 3 trues out of 5 possible.

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