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
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Replying to @pwnallthethings
Think through the process for the question: should you, US Tech CEO, label the NYT climate change opinion piece "fake news" on your site?
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Replying to @pwnallthethings
Is the answer "no" because it's NYT? But now you're elevating NYT into a special case because of it's brand, not the piece's "truthiness".
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Replying to @pwnallthethings
Maybe the answer should be "yes", because it's not true - but wait, now we having to make that assessment, and that's outside our domain
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Replying to @pwnallthethings
Just because not all assessments are easy doesn't mean none are. There are big known categories of fake news that can easily be caught.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
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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Replying to @pwnallthethings
They HIRED a known climate-denial clown. That's not "let through" - it's intentional.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pwnallthethings
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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This practice needs to be condemned harshly no matter what the prior reputation of the source that published it was.
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