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Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News (wired.co.uk)
Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser is leading a group of online volunteers hunting for ways to respond to the spread of fake news. An anonymous reader quotes Wired UK:
Inside a Google Doc, volunteers are gathering ideas and approaches to get a grip on the untruthful news stories. It is part analysis, part brainstorming, with those involved being encouraged to read widely around the topic before contributing. "This is a massive endeavour but well worth it," they say...
At present, the group is coming up with a list of potential solutions and approaches. Possible methods the group is looking at include: more human editors, fingerprinting viral stories then training algorithms on confirmed fakes, domain checking, the blockchain, a reliability algorithm, sentiment analysis, a Wikipedia for news sources, and more.
The article also suggests this effort may one day spawn fake news-fighting tech startups.
At present, the group is coming up with a list of potential solutions and approaches. Possible methods the group is looking at include: more human editors, fingerprinting viral stories then training algorithms on confirmed fakes, domain checking, the blockchain, a reliability algorithm, sentiment analysis, a Wikipedia for news sources, and more.
The article also suggests this effort may one day spawn fake news-fighting tech startups.
i wish! what we have currently doesn't even remotely resemble what this country's founders envisioned or intended.
Like slavery and women-as-chattel.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
All perspective is relative and all space is infinite. There is no left and right. There is free and not free and all the variations in between.
. You are criticizing us by moving the origin point to a location that makes you look reasonable and us crazy. That is dishonest/delusional.
What you don't seem to realize is just a few points to the left from your "reasonable" position are the historical governments of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. All you need is another major economic, cultural, or military crisis (almost there on all three) and the rise of a ruthless leader willing to use all that power Europeans have just handed over to their government like the good little sheep they are.
We on the other hand are pushing very hard to stay as far away as possible from those positions and are more than happy that you find it disappointing.
Actually, you Europeans are the ones who drifted to the left. America faired better against the Marxist movement than your countries did. I'm pretty sure it's on the verge of breaking America too, but I don't think they expected Trump. Anyway, CNN is known to be on the left by freedom standards, and now they've been caught purposely misleading the public to elect Hillary.