The NYT controversy is exactly why USTech becoming Curators of Truth to combat fake news isn't as trivial or unproblematic as we might like
Climate change denial, holocaust denial, anti-vax, etc. all come to mind as very simple and clear-cut.
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Clearly it's not so simple and clear cut because NYT's editorial staff allowed this one through. That's the whole point.
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They HIRED a known climate-denial clown. That's not "let through" - it's intentional.
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It's not about truth. It's about bothsidesism in the face of a political climate where an utterly false narrative has big following.
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The operative Q isn't whether Bret or NYT are right, but whether 3rd parties should intervene to penalize the article to combat "fake news"
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And the answer is yes they should. This is not the hard question you are making it out to be.
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What you've just done is taken an editorial decision from NYT and handed it to editors at a tech co, who're vetoing NYT's editorial decision
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No, what you've done is fixed a flaw in social media that boosts the flow of misinformation.
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Prior to social media, a few placed misinformation pieces even in NYT would have fairly small impact...
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But really you could just hire some actual experts to follow trending fake news topics and constantly tune detection filters.
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