Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Launching an Online Publication To Fight Fake News (cnn.com)

Jimmy Wales, a founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news by pairing professional journalists with an army of volunteer community contributors. The news site is called Wikitribune. From a report: "We want to make sure that you read fact-based articles that have a real impact in both local and global events," the publication's website states. The site will publish news stories written by professional journalists. But in a page borrowed from Wikipedia, internet users will be able to propose factual corrections and additions. The changes will be reviewed by volunteer fact checkers. Wikitribune says it will be transparent about its sources. It will post the full transcripts of interviews, as well as video and audio, "to the maximum extent possible." The language used will be "factual and neutral."

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[Anonymous Coward]

If there's anything I've learned about journalism in the last 41 years, it's that everyone puts their own slant on it. Regardless of their politics.

volunteer fact checkers

[fustakrakich]

Un huh... They'll have their own little *Ministry of Truth* there?

Journalism

[crafoo]

Professional journalists producing fact-checked, multi-sourced articles with a neutral tone and striving for accuracy ... I thought this was just called journalism? Why do they need amateur community contributors that are guaranteed to be infiltrated and rotten to the core with activists and paid shills?

Re:Journalism

[Archangel Michael]

Real Journalism is dead. Those things you speak of died in the age of headline news and twitter posts of simplistic nature where viral is the new meme.

Must report something before anyone else, who cares if it is accurate or not. Publish or perish. This is the world we live in.

The fact that Hillary and crew were decidedly evil, caught via "hacked" information, that led to her loss isn't news, the "RUSSIANS" are the news. It doesn't matter how evil the bitch is, "RUSSIA" hacked the elections!!!!! People found out how evil she was, and voted for the "lessor" of two evils, and that doesn't matter "RUSSIANS" hacked the elections.

Russia hacking the DNC and Hillary campaigns (no real proof or evidence ever presented, only Dark Shadow Government agencies saying so) is the news!

This is how "fake news" is generated. Alternative facts parroted until they are more important than the actual real news .... Hillary and DNC actually conspired with the News Media to toss Bernie under a bus and rig an election. BUT RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTIONS!!!

Professional journalists?

[ScentCone]

Professional journalists are some of the highest-profile PRODUCERS of fake news. I accidentally tuned to CNN the other night. Holy mackerel. I had no idea that Chicago's rampant crime problem only got really bad when the new administration put the new nation-wide Muslim ban in place. Hopefully Jimmy Wales won't be looking to get Wolf Blitzer involved in fighting fake news, because that's like getting gasoline involved in fighting a fire.

Re:Coordination, not more text

[Anonymous Coward]

BBC is very left wing. YOU think they are good, because they slant things the way you like.

Re:Sure

[AmiMoJo]

The right really needs to deal with this post-truth bullshit. It won't, because it works really well and always has, but it's getting out of hand. Anything that even attempts to be neutral and fact based is dismissed as left wing propaganda.

Science and reason are under attack.

Re:Coordination, not more text

[Anonymous Coward]

Literally any first world news source outside of the US is going to appear "left wing biased"

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Re:Classical Liberals Would Object

[GLMDesigns]

Progressivism is antithetical to liberalism.

The left is devolving into the idiocy (if not the violence) of the French Revolution.