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Facebook Will Let You Flag Content As 'False'
jfruh writes: If you're tired of seeing fake or misleading news articles posted by your friends to Facebook and then spreading like wildfire, you might be in luck. In a system that's something like Slashdot comment moderation on a grand scale, you'll now be able to flag a story as false. Links that have been flagged this way by many users will appear less frequently in people's newsfeeds, or with a disclaimer attached.
Snopes are liberal shills, don't you know, and the stories they say are false make a good point.
I know people who believe those things.
Reality has a well known liberal bias after all.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
actually my FB feed has been doing exactly that for a while. when an article is posted, "similar stories" are posted right below it. quite often i see snopes in that list
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Motivation for Facebook or Google: maximum time on website. The most profitable reputation engine is one that feeds the user his or her own preferences back to them (Judging by my news feed Yahoo is doing this). This is exactly how Fox News or Huff Post works except that instead of self-selecting news that supports my worldview it is being done without any internal processing. You might could get away with expert truthfulness on some issues. However, the scariest thing for me is that things that are opposing opinions will have an assigned truth value and the best metric would be popular opinion.