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Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com)
Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1. From a report: Facebook hasn't been shy about rating the trustworthiness of news outlets, but it's now applying that thinking to users as well. The company's Tessa Lyons has revealed to the Washington Post that it's starting to assign users reputation scores on a zero-to-one scale. The system is meant to help Facebook's fight against fake news by flagging people who routinely make false claims against news outlets, whether it's due to an ideological disagreement or a personal grudge. This isn't the only way Facebook gauges credibility, according to Lyons -- it's just one of thousands of behavior markers Facebook is using. The problem: much of how this works is a mystery. Facebook wouldn't say exactly how it calculates scores, who gets these scores and how other factors contributed to a person's trustworthiness.
> Some facts and theories are testable by the scientific community using scientific method.
Not true at all. Philosophers like Karl Popper have proved decades ago that the scientific method is unreliable at best. Humans used to use common sense to understand the world, and religion built on that by giving a moral structure to natural understanding. But liberalism has undercut this rock foundation of understanding and used the false promise of "scientific method" to attack and undermine it. But now after hundreds of years of pro-science, anti-religion propaganda the great awakening is returning the world back to the dominion of true philosophies based upon the word of god and holy scripture, which it turns out is the one true source of knowledge after all.