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The Science of Truthiness
E IS mC(Square) writes "Researchers at Indiana University have just launched Truthy.indiana.edu, which they humbly declare 'a sophisticated new Twitter-based research tool that combines data mining, social network analysis and crowdsourcing to uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation leading up to the Nov. 2 elections.' According to their FAQ, they define 'truthy' thus: 'A truthy meme relies on deceptive tactics to represent misinformation as fact. The Truthy system uses Truthy to refer to activities such as political smear campaigns, astroturfing, and other social pollution."
Absolute truth: this post contains the word NIGGER so it will be modded down.
Twitter is so out, hip geeks use Google Live instead.
> The problem is that so many people can't, or won't.
They don't need to, as they know that everything coming from the other side is a lie, so they can just ignore the liars. For example, most Slashdotters will tell you that everything coming from the "right" is a lie and worthy only of ridicule. Thus their adoration of Colbert.
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