Journalists, "you need to face something squarely: You're confronted with radical hacking of your own systems of operation. This requires radical rethinking of those systems" --@DanGillmorhttps://medium.com/@dangillmor/dear-journalists-stop-letting-liars-use-your-platforms-as-loudspeakers-cc64c4024eeb …
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I can live with that, but, devil is who gets to decide who is lying? I am thinking that could be an issue
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Media has plenty of fact-checking resources. They know who's lying and who isn't. This is not a real problem, it's a made-up one.
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I can’t get my arms around how this works, which media? CNN? FOX? Who decides? What are lies? Most “lies” are either spin or exaggeration not clear lies. Is there a statute of limitations on lies? If we find out later they were lying we can ban?
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My tweet was about a policy that news organizations aiming at legitimacy should impose on themselves, so ultimately they decide themselves. I had in mind clearly, objectively counterfactual lies. Whether to apply more broadly is a choice orgs could make.
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Right, isn’t it unethical to knowingly use an unreliable source?
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“Reliable” is a subjective term... as is ethical. So “sources say” is just fine to fuel a 24 hour news cycle. These lies make them a ton of money and they don’t really care whether anyone is informed or not. Those who care enough have to go digging for facts.
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